[redwoolf]

So I'm going to be that guy. It wasn't until Nixon and his southern strategy that the modern Republican Party became the Party we know today. The coalitions that formed the political parties before then were based more on tradition and geography than on ideology. The Republican Party has been moving ever more rightward (and pulling the Democratic Party along with it) since Reagan. America doesn't even have a Center-Left party anymore as result of this.

[sebazzz]

Voting districts and the resulting gerrymandering also doesn't help. Smaller or alternative parties never stand a chance.

Still interesting though that there are a handful of people still voting on those.