Word: backlash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negroes should be very proud of our country. I am. There is no white backlash...
Percy has the same problem among non-Negro immigrant laborers. He has no bargaining power with which to woo these Democratic blocs. And Rep. Miller apparently blunted the "backlash" effect when he alienated every ethnic group in the Chicago area by demanding more restrictive immigration laws in a speech in nearby Gary, Ind. (Apparently he thought the O'Haras, Grabowskis, and Alfinis wanted their jobs protected against both Negroes and immigrants...
...precisely because of "these people," said Johnson, that many Republicans are going to vote Democratic. "It is not backlash," he said. "That is gone. It is not frontlash. It is the smearlash. Because when people get desperate they get dangerous, and when they get dangerous they are not cautious. And when they get to fearing and doubting and smearing-why, even some of their own people don't want to go along with them...
Young is executive director of the civil rights group. He described the white backlash as only a minor obstacle to civil rights. "The real barrier," he said, "is the barrier created by generations of deprivations. Any group would bear scars as a result of such an experience and the American Negro must not be ashamed of these scars...
Professor Pettigrew has made some recent remarks which illustrate another circumstance that might distort the predictions. In denying that a "white backlash" had sprung up recently, Pettigrew pointed out that an abnormally large number of voters had turned out in Northern primaries where Governor Wallace was a candidate. Wallace's support, he suggested, had not come from a sudden change of heart on the part of people who voted regularly, but as a result of what he called the "out from under the rocks effect"--people who had always disliked Negroes now had a chance to express their dislike with...