as a minority party, the gop had two wings: the left-wing supported most of the new deal while promising to run it more efficiently and the right-wing opposed the new deal from the beginning and managed to repeal large parts during the 1940s in cooperation with conservative southern democrats in the conservative coalition. liberals, led by dewey, dominated the northeast while conservatives, led by taft, dominated the midwest. the west was split and the south was still solidly democratic.