Word: ethnicity
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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...
After giving Humphrey a substantial margin in 1968, many of the ethnics rejected McGovern this year. Angered by his support of legalized abortion, his attitude toward drugs, his proposed "surrender" to Communist North Viet Nam and amnesty for draft dodgers, these lower-and middle-class Catholic voters deserted the Democratic national ticket in record numbers, contributing significantly to Nixon's margins in the industrial Northern states. The ethnic exodus from...
...fearned English in the streets Papagianis said. "We lived in a section of St Louis called Dogtown It was an ethnic neighborhood, and it was fantasty for sports. The main thing we did in Dogtown was play soccer in the day and hang around the drugstore at night At the guys come by you whistle at the girls and if you can't get a chase going you walk down to the pool hall and play a dime a ball You learn your skills to else you lose a lot of money...
Your report on the membership appeal for the Coalition for a Democratic Majority, which I signed, totally misrepresents the appeal. The appeal supports "an ever-expanding opportunity for individuals without regard to face, class, sex or ethnic origin; an ever fairer distribution of the fruits of the country's vast wealth and productivity; a sustained effort, through compensatory action, to give those who have by birth and back ground beef disadvantaged a full opportunity to compete as equals in American life a sober but spirited assumption of America's share of responsibility for the establishment of a more secure international...