<B>ONE OF <I>THE ECONOMIST'</I>S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR AND A WINNER OF <I>THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY'</I>S ANNUAL POLITICAL BOOK AWARD</B> <P> Political experts John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira convincingly use hard data -- demographic, geographic, economic, and political -- to forecast the dawn of a new progressive era. In the 1960s, Kevin Phillips, battling conventional wisdom, correctly foretold the dawn of a new conservative era. His book, <I>The Emerging Republican Majority,</I> became an indispensable guide for all those attempting to understand political change through the 1970s and 1980s. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, with the country in Republican hands, <I>The Emerging Democratic Majority</I> is the indispensable guide to this era. <P> In five well-researched chapters and a new afterword covering the 2002 elections, Judis and Teixeira show how the most dynamic and fastest-growing areas of the country are cultivating a new wave of Democratic voters who embrace what the authors call "progressive centrism" and take umbrage at Republican demands to privatize social security, ban abortion, and cut back environmental regulations. <P> As the GOP continues to be dominated by neoconservatives, the religious right, and corporate influence, this is an essential volume for all those discontented with their narrow agenda -- and a clarion call for a new political order.