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From Southern segregationists Coles turned to some Northerners who are often as hostile toward blacks as Southerners. In The Middle Americans, published last year, Coles describes the policemen, firemen, bank tellers, typists, storekeepers, telephone repairmen and others who make up the nation's working class. Using words like backlash, ethnic blocs, bigots or hardhats to characterize these men and women turns millions of people into "them," Coles believes, creating "one more 'group' to be pitied or exploited or scorned." Each Middle American wants to be judged on his own merits, as an officer of the law complained with great clarity...
...BEGAN the Southern Strategy. A long time coming to the Republican party, it appeared as if it might be a long time gone when, after its initial failure in 1960, a modified version was far more successful in '68. The full development and deployment of the Agnew Backlash Missile system in '69 and early '70 seemed to promise even better results...
Nonetheless, the new bill gave Congressmen the opportunity to point to tangible legislation on welfare before going home to their constituents for the holidays. Unquestionably, a welfare backlash has built across the country during the past year that makes even symbolic legislation important. Some examples...
...some politicians think that a backlash of sympathy might develop for Kennedy. Says a leading House Republican: "Half the women in this country don't believe it ever happened, and the other half are dying to forgive him for it." According to an informal survey by TIME'S bureau chiefs across the nation, Chappaquiddick would not cut so deeply as an issue in a Kennedy run against Nixon as is commonly believed (see box, opposite). That could change if voters found themselves in the booths next November, forced to make a decisive judgment about the case. For the episode does...
There are several other equal opportunity provisions in the Higher Education Act that have survived the backlash in the House and deserve more publicity. The House bill would...