Dawn: Oh of course not. Any mammal can be a member of either party despite the names, as they represent ideas rather than a strict social order or exclusionary club. Although I can't necessarily blame you for thinking that off-hoof, as both parties did sort of start out as diet-specific political classes, which is why they are named as such. The founders of the Preygressives were exclusively prey, and the same went for the Preditionalists in terms of being founded by predators. However both remained sort of...diet exclusionary for only a few decades after they were founded, ironically with the Preditionalists caving first and allowing prey mammals into the party a good decade or two before the Preygressives followed suit. With the Preditionalists, I think they saw fairly early on that the party wouldn't survive if they remained an exclusionary organization, as prey outnumbered them nine to one. As for the Preygressives, it was their push for more progressive ideas that would inevitably push them toward doing away taking an exclusionary stance. Of course, the process would have been inevitable regardless of how resistant both parties would have been to change, as eventually, the animal rights issues would have forced them to abandon being exclusionary.
Vernon: Although, y'all could argue that if the two biggest players weren't both pushin' to resist that sorta thing, what with them bein' the primary political parties in Zootopia, they might have been able to stay that way, right?
Dawn: *Shakes head* Unlikely, the positions were already becoming unfavorable at the time, and had they remained resolute in the face of the idea of extending party eligibility to all mammals, they would have been brushed aside by up and coming smaller parties willing to be all-inclusive from the get-go. So, had they not changed, there more than likely wouldn't be a modern Preygressive or Preditionalist party. Or, if they still existed, they would have been niche, extremist parties.
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