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In 1976, after 44 years in power, Sweden's Social Democratic Party (SDP) lost to a Central Party coalition-a loss that was narrowly re- peated in 1979.Some scholars suggest that growing affluence has made conservatives of Sweden's blue-collar class, the traditional mainstay of the SDP. It is true that th...