Word: nativists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those who believe that the movement inflames nativist resentments got some ammunition this fall. The ethnocentric views of U.S. English's co-founder and former chairman John Tanton came to light when initiative opponents uncovered a 1986 memo in which he expressed worry that low white birthrates and high Hispanic birthrates would endanger American society. Wrote Tanton: "Perhaps this is the first instance in which those with their pants up are going to get caught by those with their pants down." Board member Linda Chavez, former staff director of the Civil Rights Commission and later candidate for the U.S. Senate...
...scored a firm but not flashy 36% New Hampshire victory, heads into the unfamiliar terrain of Dixie as the leading white liberal in the race. Jesse Jackson, of course, should corral almost all the black vote. By finishing second in New Hampshire, with 20%, Richard Gephardt demonstrated that his nativist trade policies and his fiery mock-populist rhetoric resonate with blue-collar voters across the geographic spectrum. And Albert Gore, the not-ready-for-North ern-climes candidate, must prove that his Southern endorsements and smart-set moderate appeal can translate into primary votes...
...clarity and strength. "What really clinched it for Gephardt was the way he presented the message on trade," theorized Arthur Miller, a University of Iowa political scientist. "It was a strong, sharp image coming across, with a gut feeling of patriotism." The Missouri Congressman's trade plan touches on nativist fears, and he rivals the Walter Mondale of 1984 in interest-group pandering. But he was the only Democrat to cut through the deficit doldrums to touch on deeper economic fears. "We are losing our standard of living," Gephardt warned in countless speeches, and union members, farmers and the elderly...
...finale of his Iowa caucus campaign around a furious attack on "corporate America." In one recent speech, Gephardt castigated the "Establishment" in 21 different allusions with a common thread: "The Establishment is separated from the consequences of its own opinions." His tough stance on foreign trade appeals to a nativist streak that is an undercurrent of populism. Bruce Babbitt's best applause comes when he denounces corporate executives who get large bonuses while cutting workers' benefits. He has called IBP meat-packers, one of Iowa's most antiunion companies, a "corporate outlaw." All the other Democrats soon followed suit. Gary...
...based in Tuscaloosa, is the largest of the several independent groups which, together, comprise "the Klan". Overall Klan membership reached its all-time high of three million to five million in the nativist 1920's and surged again up to 55,000 in response to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's. It reached a recent peak of 13,000 in 1981, the same year Klansmen killed Michael Donald, but has been dropping ever since. The Klan today has 6500 members...