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Chairman | Victor Marani (CA)[1] |
Vice Chairman | James Mallamace[2] |
Founders | Bill Shearer Eileen Knowland Shearer |
Founded | July 8, 1967 |
Split from | Democratic Party Republican Party |
Headquarters | PO Box 1479. Freedom, California 95019 |
Ideology | American nationalism Anti-communism Paleoconservatism[3] Right-wing populism Formerly, now factions: Populism Economic populism Syncretic politics |
Political position | Far-right[4][5][6][7] |
National affiliation | American Independent Party[8] |
Slogan | "No North, No South, No East, No West - One Great Nation, Heaven Blessed!" |
State Senate | 0 / 40 |
State House | 0 / 80 |
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The American Independent Party (AIP) is a far-right political party in the United States that was established in 1967. The AIP is best known for its nomination of Democratic then-former Governor George Wallace of Alabama, who carried five states in the 1968 presidential election running on a populist, hard-line anti-Communist, pro-"law and order" platform, appealing to working-class white voters and widely understood by political analysts as having pro-segregationist or white supremacist undertones, against Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey. In 1976, the party split into the modern American Independent Party and the American Party. From 1992 until 2008, the party was the California affiliate of the national Constitution Party. Its exit from the Constitution Party led to a leadership dispute during the 2008 election.