Word: ethnicity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter largely failed to exploit Ford's slip during the debate. But next day he called Ford's remarks "absolutely ridiculous," and his staff considered preparing a series of radio commercials to be beamed primarily at ethnic communities. Chortled Carter Political Director Landon Butler: "We couldn't have picked a better ethnic coordinator than Ford...
...ETHNIC" REACTION...
Ford's statement dumbfounded and dismayed "ethnic" groups. So far, at least, only a minority echoed the charitable view of Boleslaw Wierzbianski, of the Polish Daily News in Jersey City, N.J., that the remark was "a lapse of lingua-a slip of the tongue." Added Feliks Gadomski, general secretary of the Assembly of Captive European Nations: "I was shocked by what he said, but you have to judge him on the whole American Government policy...
...heavy on the onion sauce) at a county fair, he can talk knowingly about the fine points of a champion steer because he has done some gentleman farming. In the predominantly Democratic Pittsburgh district that has elected him three times, Heinz, an Episcopalian, gets on well with blue-collar ethnic families. He de-emphasizes the G.O.P. label and tries to come across as an independent who cares enough about working-class problems to vote occasionally against Republican Administration positions. Two weeks ago, for instance, he voted to override President Ford's veto of the $56 billion HEW appropriation bill...
There has always been class struggle in the South, submerged by racism (just as, in the North, working class discontent has been diffused largely by ethnic differences that separate the mass of immigrants who fueled industrial development). Northern working class people escaped into privatism and a waxing standard of living; white Southerners, living in a perpetually underdeveloped region, had no such luxury--aside from racist rage, they escaped into tradition and religion. Fundamentals millenarian cults and hysterical revival meetings in one way, opened outlets for the frustration of feeling dumb and oppressed...