Word: carthyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York City itself is a conglomerate of minorities that make up a majority. The city's Irish-Catholic population, 1,000,000 strong and predominantly Roman Catholic, swung against Adlai Stevenson, partly out of the appeal of Mc-Carthyism and doubts about Stevenson's firmness against Communism. The religion issue seems to have brought back most of them to the Democrats. Last week Pollster Samuel Lubell reported: "More than half the pro-Eisenhower Catholics interviewed in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens talk of voting for Senator Kennedy." As for the city's 2,400,000 Jews, their vague...