Word: populists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slight conservative majority is far from homogeneous. Its members are bound together by many traditional values but separated into what could be called the more classical (61%) and more populist (39%) constituencies by the latter group's angry feeling that they have been left out of the American mainstream. Indeed, almost two-thirds of the Americans who qualified as socially resentful are also part of the conservative majority. For purposes of analysis, they were called resentful conservatives...
Paul Spyros Sarbanes, 41, calls himself an "urban populist." After a single term in Maryland's House of Delegates, this liberal Democrat toppled 13-term Congressman George Fallen in 1970. A Judiciary Committee member, he was one of only ten Representatives named to a select committee that recently recommended a reshuffling of jurisdictions within the House committee structure The thoughtful son of a Greek-born restaurant owner, Sarbanes is a former Princeton basketball player, Rhodes scholar and Harvard law graduate...
...populist, Bumpers has compiled a respectable record as Governor. With a series of reforms, including the reorganization of the state's government into efficient, Cabinet-type units, Bumpers put Arkansas solidly in the black. Simultaneously, he managed to boost teachers' salaries by an average of $2,000, to expand the state's systems of public kindergartens and colleges, and to increase from 20 to 85 the number of community care centers for the mentally retarded. He also raised the percentage of blacks among the state's employees from less than 10% to 19%, roughly the same...
CRAFTS, ONCE RELEGATED to roadside trading posts and flea markets, are slowly gaining legitimacy as art forms. Whether heralded as a new renaissance in populist art or condemned as regression, the surge in craft as art is a reality, and has invaded Harvard at Hilles Library in the form of a pottery exhibit, "Fire and Clay...
Degler's survey of dissent in the nineteenth-century South relentlessly portrays native white Southerners who opposed slavery, supported the Union, became Republicans during Reconstruction, rejected the Democratic Party in the 1880s and joined the Populists in the 1890s. He makes his case for a peculiar but ongoing tradition of efforts to change the South from within, linking the dissenters across the chasm of war and emancipation. (For example, Degler ties the Southern populists more to the scalawags of the 1870s than to their contemporaries, the rebellious populist farmers in Kansas or South Dakota.) Degler's 'other Southerners' people...