Word: ethnical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ACCORDING to legend, the Hungarians are descended from Noah's grandson Magyar. The Magyars of Hungary bear no ethnic kinship to their Slavic neighbors in the Balkans, and of all Europe's peoples are related only to the Finns and Estonians. Latecomers to Central Europe, fierce fighters and skillful horsemen, they were driven southward over the centuries from their early home on the slopes of Siberia's Ural Mountains, and in 895, under the leadership of their tribal chief Arpad, crossed over the Carpathian Mountains into the great plain that is now Hungary...
...Republican House and Senate. East of the Mississippi no Democrat unseated a Republican House incumbent-and West of the Mississippi no Republican unseated a Democratic incumbent. Outside the South. Republicans carried at least 193 congressional districts; the Democrats carried fewer than 130. The Republicans cracked all traditionally Democratic ethnic and religious blocs except (amid the Israel crisis) the Jewish. In the South, every one of the five Southern Republican Congressmen held on to his seat. Ike rolled up a bigger popular vote in six Southern states than in 1952, and for the first time since the Civil War there...
...Pacific Coast and burst through traditional Democratic barriers in the South-where Ike carried Texas, Florida, Virginia, West Virginia. Kentucky. Tennessee and, unbelievably, Louisiana. It tore city after city-from Jersey City to Chicago to Montgomery-from the Democratic grasp. It cut across nearly all racial, religious, ethnic and economic lines. It gave Dwight Eisenhower a victory surging toward the 10 million plurality mark, with about 58% of the U.S. vote, and victories in 41 states...
Adlai Stevenson had based his hopes on the Solid South, on farm discontent in the Midwest, on the labor vote in the cities of the industrial North and on his party's longtime hold on racial, religious and ethnic minorities. One after another, those hopes were smashed...
Friendly Anglo-American relations have tended to have been taken for granted during the last century, according to May. These friendly relations have been based, with the exception of strategic alliances during the two world wars, on a rather vaguely defined ethnic identification...