Word: ethnicity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...G.O.P. has distanced itself to such an extent from many American ethnic and interest groups that it can scarcely be considered representative of the nation. Don Riegle looks over the U.S. House of Representatives and says: "You notice that on the Republican side there are no black members, not many women, very few from ethnic groups, very few from modest economic circumstances. What you see is a group like an Establishment men's service club. On the Democratic side you have the whole country represented. Because of this, the Democratic Party has a tolerance for differences, and that...
...Republican Party has also been laggard in recruiting an even more crucial ally: the big-city ethnic voter who has grown increasingly disillusioned with the Democratic Party and more conservative in his outlook. Back in 1968 Republican theorists like Kevin Phillips were urging the G.O.P. politicians to offer some programs that would appeal to urban Catholics, whether Irish, Italian, Polish, Hungarian, or Czech. In his latest book, The Mediacracy, Phillips writes that traditional Republicans and ethnics have a common enemy in the new "knowledge-sector elite"?liberals and Big Government, education, foundations and the press, who tend to belittle...
Herbert Hoover was perfectly qualified to continue this style of government, but he became a casualty of the Depression. The groups that had gone along with the G.O.P. as long as there was prosperity broke away to vote for Franklin Roosevelt in 1932. Blacks, Jews and other urban ethnic groups had been reliably Republican before the Depression; Roosevelt's appeal and his social programs made them solidly Democratic. Unable to prevent F.D.R. from being elected to four terms, the Republicans seemed to be retired into permanent opposition. The G.O.P. split into two groups?liberal internationalists and conservative isolationists, a division...
...most of the border states to Carter--his natural appeal there is too strong to be overcome by a bone like Howard Baker. Reagan has a natural political base in the West and for the rest of his electoral votes, he would have to count on huge majorities in ethnic centers in the industrial North--states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Ohio. And on the important "social" issues which might appeal to that constituency--amnesty, abortion, busing, prayer in the schools, etc.--Schweiker's views are in perfect accordance with Reagan's. In such a campaign--which would bear an eerie...
...time of your revolution and in the two centuries since, the problem of achieving unity out of diversity was largely the problem of welding different states, regions, ethnic groups, into one nation. These same issues have concerned us, though less forcefully, in Australia...