Many politically active artists worked for the New Deal projects. United by a desire to use art to promote social change, these artists sympathized with the labor movement and exhibited an affinity for left-wing politics ranging from New Deal liberalism to socialism to communism.
During the early nineteenth century, the Jeffersonian Party's base of strength was in the south
The party was formed by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison around 1792. It was opposed to the centralizing policies of the new Federalist Party as it believed that a strong central government posed a threat to liberty
