" After South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond switched his allegiance to the Republican Party in 1964, BJU faculty members became increasingly influential in the new state Republican party, and BJU alumni were elected to local political and party offices.

Willkie formally switched political parties that year and began making speeches opposing the New Deal.

In the 20th century, Mongolia switched first the Latin script, and then almost immediately replaced it with the Cyrillic script for compatibility with the Soviet Union, its political ally of the time.

Mobutu later moved away from torture and murder, and switched to a new tactic, buying off political rivals.

* In New Zealand, political columnist Chris Trotter has theorised about the emergence of " Waitakere Man ", a traditionally blue-collar constituency who he believes switched their votes to National Party leader John Key in the 2008 elections on the premises of ' ambition ' and ' aspiration '.

Eastern Europe used SECAM, but switched to PAL after the change of the political regimes there.

McClellan continued his efforts against organized crime, supplying the political influence for the anti-organized crime laws ( Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, RICO ) which were conceived by G. Robert Blakey until 1973 when he switched to investigating political subversion.

Paksas, a former member of Communist Party of Lithuania ( LKP ) and its successor leftist Democratic Labour Party ( LDDP ) in 1995 switched his political orientation in favour of conservative right Homeland Union ( Lithuanian Conservatives ).

Ta Kung Pao initially supported the Kuomintang during the Civil War, but switched its sympathies to the Communists after the Shanghai massacre of 1927 and other violent purges of political opponents by the Kuomintang.

Furthermore, MNAs Pierre-Michel Auger and André Riedl, as well as power broker Yvon Picotte, switched political affiliation from ADQ to Liberal in October 2008.

In 1974, the government under Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman switched from parliamentary to a single party presidential system banning all press, political parties and activities under the State of Emergency.

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, almost all American soft drink bottlers switched from cane sugar to HFCS ( high-fructose corn syrup ) because of a rise in the price of sugar for a number of political reasons.

Wenceslas, for political reasons, switched his support from the Germans to Hus and allied with the reformers.

David Beasley, a native of Darlington, South Carolina, began his political career as a member of the Democratic Party, but switched to the Republican Party in September 1991, three years before his election as governor.

in international relations in 1969 and switched to academe as a political scientist at the University of California, Irvine, where he stayed for his entire American career.

By 1852 Crosby switched her political allegiance from support for the Jacksonian Democrats to the anti-slavery Whigs, writing the poem " Carry Me On " for the Whigs in 1852.

Mitterrand's political view proved prescient in that, as the BBC noted as of 2010, after a progressive rift with the Kagame-led regime that has ruled Rwanda since 1994 ( described in greater detail below ), Rwanda repeatedly broke diplomatic relations with France ; the Rwandan government shut down all French institutions in Rwanda, including schools and cultural organisations, with only some being subsequently reopened ; the language of instruction in Rwandan schools " has even been switched from French to English "; and Rwanda strove to join the British-led Commonwealth, thus becoming one of only two members that were not former British colonies.

Later, once Clark had switched party allegiance to the Democrats, he and Jackson became political allies.

His doctoral work was in U. S. political history, and switched his emphasis towards diplomatic history while teaching at the University of Hawaii.

Anderson once again stood for election as mayor and was defeated by Fasi, who had switched his political affiliation from Democrat to Republican, so as to avoid being knocked out of the Democratic primary by Anderson.

By 1974, Godwin had switched to the Republican Party, as the dominance of the Democrats in Virginia politics and the Byrd political machine had clearly ended.

" While Zuckerman has always randomly switched back and forth between the parties ," since the late 1970s, he has donated more than $ 68, 000 to American political candidates with $ 42, 700 going to Democratic politicians and $ 24, 000 to independent interests.

He switched his support to his one-time political adversary and main opposition leader, Khaleda Zia forming an anti-government coalition.

As Pope Martin V supported Sforza, Alfonso switched religious allegiance to the Aragonese antipope Benedict XIII.

In 1942, commenting on journalist E. H. Carr's pro-Soviet views, Orwell stated: " all the appeasers, e. g. Professor E. H. Carr, have switched their allegiance from Hitler to Stalin.

As a consequence, the FDP switched allegiance to the CDU and Schmidt lost his parliamentary majority in 1982.

Frustrated by the king's impositions and supported by Archbishop Odo, the Thanes of Mercia and Northumbria switched their allegiance to Eadwig's brother Edgar.

It was because of this that Edward's former staunch ally Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, known to history as " The Kingmaker " switched his allegiance to the House of Lancaster.

However in 206 BC, the new king of the eastern Massylii, Masinissa, allied himself with Rome, and Syphax of the Masaesyli switched his allegiance to the Carthaginian side.

In 1932, many young republicans switched allegiance from the republican movement to Fianna Fáil.

He was succeeded by Han Fuju, who was loyal to the warlord Feng Yuxiang but later switched his allegiance to the Nanjing government headed by Chiang Kai-Shek.

The remaining loyal units switched allegiance the next day.

Later in life his allegiance switched to the future Henry IV, to whom later editions of the Confessio Amantis were dedicated.

Upon seizing power, he switched Egypt's allegiance to the Baghdad-based Abbasid Caliphate which adhered to Sunni Islam.

In 1183, Irbil too switched allegiance to the Ayyubids.

From 1761 to 1776 he exhibited at the Society of Artists, but in 1775 he switched his allegiance to the recently founded but already more prestigious Royal Academy.

After the Soviets broke with Barre in the late 1970s, he subsequently expelled all Soviet advisers, tore up his friendship treaty with the Soviet Union, and switched allegiance to the West.

The three ' castles of the Downs ' were initially held for Parliament, but the forces switched allegiance to support the Royalist cause.

Yang returned to China as one of the 28 Bolsheviks and originally supported the early communist leader Zhang Guotao, but switched allegiance to Mao's faction during the Long March.

Amongst the retaliatory steps taken, Dawa switched their allegiance to Abu Al-Qassim Al-Khoei another leading scholar in Najaf.

Floris got rid of the Avesnes influence and switched allegiance to the Dampierres.

In 198, Lü Bu switched his allegiance to Yuan Shu again and attacked Liu Bei at Xiaopei.

However, in the face of the increasing Avar threat, the Sabirs, previously allied with Sassanid Persia, switched their allegiance to the Byzantines in 552 and invaded the Caucasus.

Initially a supporter of Mark Antony, Hirtius was successfully lobbied by Cicero ( who was a personal friend ) and switched his allegiance to the senatorial party.

In 2012, however, Andreesen switched his allegiance to the Republican candidate Mitt Romney.

Their allegiance switched repeatedly between the British and the Americans as power relations shifted between the nations.

Nobumoto sided with Oda Nobuhide in 1542, having switched his allegiance from the Imagawa family, but soon changing sides once more, to serve under the Matsudaira family.