Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PREJUDICES and memories being what they are, the Democratic Party should have learned one thing from the experience of Jimmy Carter--that another Southerner with little Federal experience or name recognition is not likely to win an election. At least two Southerners, have however with an optimism the rest of the party may not share, already announced their candidacies for president, a third and a fourth may do so, and many others are considered as possible nominees for vice president...
...have so many Southerners running so soon after the defeat of Jimmy Carter seems surprising. But the face and constituency of the Democratic Party are changing with the withdrawal of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D. Mass.), Sen. John Glenn (D-Ohio) and former Vice President Walter Mondale are the only candidates from the traditional industrial Northeast and Midwest party base Historically, the South has been the other base of the party, dutifully casting its electoral votes in the Democratic column in most Presidential elections. (The exceptions were 1964, when most of the Deep South voted for Gold water...
...discussing the question of Southern identity in the late 20th century, one should note that in that phraseology lies the whole problem confronting a Southern candidate for the Presidency: a lingering sense of Southern separateness combines with an equally lingering suspicion, hostility, even prejudice against the South. The Jimmy Carter saga only heightened these tensions...
...eight to a silver-medal finish in the 1975 World Championships in England and manned the six oar in the American boat which captured the bronze medal at Montreal in the 1975 Olympics. She again made the Olympic team in 1980 but did not compete because of President Carter's call for a boycott of the games...
...into a waiting limousine, Albert extended the middle finger of his left hand to the clustered throng of photographers in the universally understood gesture of disapproval. At such moments, no doubt, royal families must wish that the art of portraiture had never moved off the easel. -By E. Graydon Carter...