by the GOP and ran unsuccessfully as a third-party presidential candidate, feeling that William Howard Taft had betrayed the values of the Republican Party and calling for social reforms similar to those he had enacted during his presidency. After 1912, many Roosevelt supporters left the Republican Party, and the Party underwent an ideological shift to the right, beginning its 20th-century trend towards conservatism. The GOP lost its congressional majorities during the Great Depression (1929–1940) when the Democrats' New Deal programs proved popular. Dwight D. Eisenhower presided over a period of economic prosperity after the war. Following the Great Society era of progressive legislation under Lyndon B. Johnson, the Southern states became increasingly Republican and the Northeastern states became increasingly Democratic. After the Supreme Court's 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade, the Republican Party opposed abortion in its party platform and grew its support among evangelicals. Richard Nixon carried 49 states in 1972 with his silent majority, even as the Watergate scandal dogged his campaign leading to his resignation. After Gerald Ford pardoned Nixon, he lost reelection and the Republicans would not regain power and realign the political landscape once more until 1980 with the election of Reagan, who brought together advocates of free-market economics, social conservatives, and Soviet Union hawks in a "three leg stool". As of the 2020s, the party does best among voters who lack postgraduate degrees; live in rural, ex-urban, or small town areas; are married, men; or are White, as well as among members of many religious groups, including evangelical Christians and Latter Day Saints. While it does not receive the vote of most racial and sexual minorities, it does among Cuban and Vietnamese voters. It has gained support among members of the white working class and lost support among affluent and college-educated white people since the 1980s. Since 2012, it has gained support among working class minorities, particularly Hispanic and Latino Americans. The party's dominant ideology is American conservatism, with the party generally supporting policies that favor limited government, individualism, traditionalism, republicanism, and limited federal governmental power in relation to the states. Like the Democratic Party, it has taken widely variant and often opposing positions on abortion, trade, immigration, and foreign policy throughout its history. The Republican Party is a member of the International Democrat Union, an international alliance of centre-right political parties. It has several prominent political wings, including a student wing, the College