![]() ![]() At a point before the California primary, political operative Stuart Spencer called on Rockefeller to "summon that fabled nexus of money, influence, and condescension known as the Eastern Establishment". The group's powerful role in the GOP came under heavy attack during the 1964 primary campaign between Rockefeller and Barry Goldwater. Rockefeller Republicanism has been described as the last phase of the " Eastern Establishment" of the GOP that had been led by New York governor Thomas E. Luke Phillips has also stated that the Rockefeller Republicans represent the continuation of the Whig tradition of American politics. ![]() Geoffrey Kabaservice states that they were part of a separate political ideology, aligning on certain issues and policies with liberals, while on others with conservatives and on many with neither. The term refers to " member of the Republican Party holding views likened to those of Nelson Rockefeller a moderate or liberal Republican". ![]() Rockefeller Republicans were most common in the Northeast and the industrial Midwestern states, with their larger moderate-to-liberal constituencies, while they were rare in the South and the West. The Rockefeller Republicans were members of the Republican Party (GOP) in the 1930sā1970s who held moderate-to- liberal views on domestic issues, similar to those of Nelson Rockefeller, Governor of New York (1959ā1973) and Vice President of the United States (1974ā1977). Nelson Rockefeller, after whom Rockefeller Republicans were named ![]()
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