Word: chaikin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...defectors. In part, the Democrats have been the victims of their own success. They have enacted much of the classic liberal agenda?generous welfare plans, unemployment compensation, Social Security, Medicare, civil rights legislation. Some of the beneficiaries of these programs no longer consider themselves to be Democrats. Says Sol Chaikin, president of the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union: "You have a group that has moved out of the proletariat into the broad middle class...