Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PRESIDENT Nixon's massive victory splintered a once dominant force in national politics: the Democratic coalition. Welded together by the despair of the Depression and the charisma of Franklin D. Roosevelt, it consisted of an unlikely amalgam of minorities: Southern whites, Jews, "ethnic"* blue-collar workers, blacks and campus-oriented intellectuals. Despite the disparate backgrounds and views of these blocs, the coalition was remarkably durable. It produced 20 consecutive years of Democratic Administrations, survived the virtually unbeatable heroic appeal and victories of Dwight Eisenhower, and regrouped to elect John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. Severely split by the riotous Chicago convention...
ETHNIC BLUE-COLLAR WORKERS: A startling switch to the G.O.P...
...turned out, Kerry's biggest failing was his inability to sell himself to the blue collar worker, especially in the urban areas of Lowell and Lawrence. With blue collar voters. Kerry was haunted by the appearance (and reality) that he is a rich, prep school liberal with a long record of activism against the Vietnam War and the status quo in government. The memory of Kerry's testimony against the war before Congress, the memory of his arrest at the Vietnam Veterans demonstration in Lexington, and the recent publication of Kerry's book. The New Soldier, combined to alsenate rather...
...FACTOR that turned the election, that both men were aware of but tried to ignore, was the composition of Rhode Island voters. The second-most urban state in the country. Rhode Island is predominantly blue-collar and predominantly Democratic--in 1968 it gave Humphrey his largest margin. In addition, the state has the strongest Democratic machine outside of Chicago with political boss Larry McGarry serving as State Democratic Chairman and Providence Democratic Chairman...
McGovern also did poorly with groups which have traditionally been the backbone of the Democratic party. McGovern became the first Democrat in history to lose a majority of the Roman Catholic vote. The South Dakota Senator also became the first Democrat in recent memory to not carry blue collar workers...