>>Third party advocates usually overlook the truly huge movement of people from the Republican to the Democrat column under LBJ, and the even larger movement of people from the Democrat to the Republican column under Nixon and Reagan.
Those movements far outweighed any conceivable third-party development.<<
What? You can speak in regular ol language rather than attempting to sound scholarly. It's really ok.
'movement of people from .... and to ...." is no less scholarly than saying 'peel off a faction from"
Means the same thing.
As far as "attempting to sound scholarly" goes I'm not attempting.