Word: populists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even Wallace, the report says, gains votes partly because he is an economic liberal in the populist tradition despite his racial views. Noting the success of such moderate Republicans as Arkansas Governor Winthrop Rockefeller, Virginia Governor Linwood Holton, Tennessee Senator Howard Baker and Texas Congressman George Bush, the report contends that such candidates "won by appealing to just those groups that the Southern strategy rejects...
Many Congressmen and Senators questioned whether the Government ought to come to the aid of any private company-large or small-with a record of sloppy management. The hardest blows were struck by Wright Patman, chairman of the House Banking Committee. A Texarkana Populist who detests both big city banks and railroads, Patman attacked the legality of the Administration's plan to guarantee the loans under the Defense Production...
Also intended for Back Bay is Bill Jacobson's wall-long relief sculpture for the side of a building. Made of pieces like old railroad ties and used industrial lumber, its strong vertical and horizontal lines recall the rectilinear urban grid of the area. And the material corroborates the Populist sentiment that "wood is good"-a needed counterpoint for an increasingly steel city...
SEALE: What you have to do to end white racism is to civilize white America. You have to educate the masses of white America to the trick bag that the power structure's putting them into. There was a time in history when there was a Populist and a Socialist movement, when blacks and whites were both functioning together. The only thing that divided the blacks and the whites were the oligarchy rulers because the blacks and the whites were beginning to work together...
...strongest of Pastrana's three opponents turned out to be old Dictator Rojas, who had conveniently become a splinter Conservative for the occasion. With little support from the basically apolitical army, Rojas, now 70, effectively drummed up enthusiasm among the peasants. Touring the barrios, he played the populist, promising cars for everybody and warning of a "dialogue of daggers" with the ruling elite...