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Get help with access Institutional accessĪccess to content on Oxford Academic is often provided through institutional subscriptions and purchases. Obama's mixed racial heritage, his ambitious policy agenda, and the extraordinarily diverse coalition of liberals, young people, and racial minorities that supported him in 2008 all contributed to a powerful negative reaction on the part of many economic and social conservatives aligned with the Republican Party and perhaps among whites who were simply upset about having a black man in the White House. The other factor crucial to the emergence of the Tea Party movement at the grass roots was the election of Barack Obama as president. It argues that grassroots support for the Tea Party movement can best be understood as a product of the increasing conservatism of the Republican Party's activist base over the past several decades.


It also explains why the Tea Party movement emerged when it did, immediately following the election of a Democratic president and Congress in 2008, and whether the movement is likely to last beyond the 2010 midterm elections.

This chapter analyzes the sources of support for the Tea Party movement within the American public.
