Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through the years, Boston's Irish had learned to live with Georgia's crackers, but now they were both being elbowed aside by Midwestern half-conservatives and Scrantonish representatives of the Establishment. Smack in the middle of this greatest of party extravagansas there were knots of newly converted Republicans, weeping involuntarily for Keating and Percy...
This struggle bears directly on the Senate race between Pierre Salinger and George Murphy. Murphy exemplifies the Midwestern ethic. Instead of addressing rallies, he discusses the campaign with small crowds in a subdued homey manner. In these little talks, the ex-song-and-dance man dispels the more frivolous connotations of his past by recounting his efforts to rid the entertainment industry of communist influences. His long association with right-wing crusades has garnered Murphy support from the Goldwater wing of the party, which includes most of the GOP's fundraisers and nearly all of its grassroots workers. Conversely, though...
...Murphy's soft-spoken non-style plays upon the state's nostalgia for Midwestern conventionalism, the energetic campaign of Senator Salinger exploits California's love of audacious good fun. Each day Plucky Pierre crisscrosses the state by helicopter, dropping dramatically out of the smog to embrace an ever-present bevy of giggling Salinger Girls. Waving an outrageously gnawed cigar to the crowd and patting his portly frame, Pierre turns every stop into a garnish tongue-cheek extravaganza...
...mingle with the aroma of frying pescado and chips; from back alleys float shreds of flamenco music, tourist twist and the dogged strains of Methodist choir practice (Rock of Ages is a Gibraltarian favorite). Helmeted native bobbies impartially ogle vacationing English shopgirls, off-duty African belly dancers, and the Midwestern matrons among the 240,000 visitors who stop off there by sea each year...
Goldwater strategists see the Midwest as the crucial battleground in this fall's election, but one Midwestern state no one expects the Senator to carry is Michigan. There is usually a Democratic majority there and considerable evidence of strong frontlash this year, especially n the suburbs outside Detroit. White backlash is apparently not as strong in Michigan as in some large industrial states; in a key primary, seven-term Congressman John Lesinski, the only northern Democrat to vote against the civil rights bill, was beaten by his more liberal colleague John Dingell. Lesinski's defeat shows that hard work, particularly...