caa a22 4500 475800656 CHVBK 20180406123736.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20001201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1010626029987 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1010626029987 Schiffer Adam Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 27599, Chapel Hill, North Carolina aut I'm Not That Liberal: Explaining Conservative Democratic Identification [Elektronische Daten] [Adam Schiffer] The persistence of self-identified conservative Democrats in the electorate is puzzling. Both the ongoing Southern realignment and the recent ideological polarization should have resulted in conservative Democrats changing their party identification to accord with their discrepant ideology. Instead, the number of conservative Democrats, as a percentage of the total electorate, has held steady over the last 20 years. I propose an explanation for this phenomenon that draws upon theories of mass belief systems, as well as an element of recent political reality: the popular stigmatization of the word "liberal.” I argue that Democrats who are susceptible to elite cues garner positive affect toward the conservative label and negative affect toward the liberal label. They then identify themselves accordingly, regardless of their issue positions. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 2000 ideology nationallicence public opinion nationallicence party identification nationallicence Political Behavior Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 22/4(2000-12-01), 293-310 0190-9320 22:4<293 2000 22 11109 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010626029987 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010626029987 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Schiffer Adam Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 27599, Chapel Hill, North Carolina aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Political Behavior Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 22/4(2000-12-01), 293-310 0190-9320 22:4<293 2000 22 11109 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer