While it is unclear how quickly such an alignment will solidify, it will introduce a new set of values into public life and restructure the debate about them, supplementing, if not replacing, older cultural alignments. (firstthings.com)
In sum, then, 1992 voting patterns reveal historic cultural alignments, albeit reshuffled by the cultural changes of the last generation, and modified by the short - term effects of a weak economy. (firstthings.com)
First, the conventional wisdom on the role of economic factors in elections is overstated; even in a year when such short - term factors were particularly strong, they operated within the context of long - term cultural alignments. (firstthings.com)