The Moderate Democrats was a faction of the Democratic Party that was active from 1968 to 1992. The faction arose after the death of the New Deal Democrats and the divisions caused by the 1968 presidential election, during which Hubert Humphrey's moderate wing of the Democratic Party defeated George McGovern's progressive wing in the primaries. The Moderate Democrats advocated a more moderate form of New Deal policies; the faction continued to support market liberalism, governmental intervention in the economy, secularism, and a strong military, but it had more moderate stances concerning citizenship policy. The faction was not as radically leftist as the New Left Democrats or the Progressive Democrats, but it was more liberal than the southern "Boll Weevil Democrats". In 1992, the faction evolved into the "New Democrats", led by Bill Clinton.
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