Word: unblacked
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...must capture the center ground of an election battlefield." The center itself shifts with the major issues of the day, but any candidate who is perceived as purely a liberal or purely a conservative is relatively weak. Furthermore, the majority that resides in the center is "unyoung, unpoor, and unblack." The typical American voter is "the forty-seven-year-old wife of a machinist living in suburban Dayton, Ohio." Her major concern is what the authors call the Social Issue, "a set of public attitudes concerning the more frightening aspects of social change": crime, race riots, campus unrest, pornography...
...TIME, Pollster Louis Harris interpreted the 1970 election this way: "Efforts to put together a new coalition of diverse elements under an umbrella of common aversion to the young, the blacks and the poor just won't jell. The thesis that the U.S. is 'unblack' (88% are white), 'unyoung' (83% of the vote is over 30) and 'unpoor' (88% are not in poverty) turns out to be a vast half truth at best. After the 1970 election, we must obviously remember that by that kind of measurement we are also unsmalltown (71% live in metropolitan areas); unsouthern white...
...before and do not quite know what has hit them. In many ways, today's unemployed are different from those of earlier years. Though members of minority groups and blue-collar workers are the most vulnerable to layoffs, a surprising number of jobless people are unpoor and unblack...
...magazine was the first to put the op in art, add the Roman numerals to World War II and to lead the way in popularizing scores of new words from G.I. to A-bomb and egghead. Richard Scammon's "unyoung, unpoor and unblack" description of the average American was quoted in TIME, and its reception encouraged him to co-author The Real Majority. We found ecdysiast, first minted by H.L. Mencken, a delightful way of describing Gypsy Rose Lee, and helped make it a part of the language. The title beatnik, originally bestowed on Bohemian writers in San Francisco...