Word: suburbanitesâ
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Dates: during 1972-1972
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...ruinous polls, where is the McGovern America? McGovern apparently commands a majority of only the college young, the blacks and the Jews. But the McGovern constituency, actual and potential, is not a matter of race, economic class or education. Like Nixon, McGovern has support among millionaires, blue-collar workers, suburbanites???not nearly so much as the President of course. But it may be that as an idea, an instinct, the McGovern phenomenon is more wide spread than the polls indicate. "In a broad sense," writes Arthur Schlesinger Jr., "the election of 1972 will be the politics of authority...
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