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To: ckilmer
In 1970 the liberal columnist Stewart Alsop identified three "nations" that dominated American culture: the Black Nation, consisting of black nationalists and the radical wing of the civil rights movement, the Woodstock Nation, made up of hippies, student protesters, anti-Vietnam War activists and the like, and the Wallace Nation, comprised of working-class and lower middle-class whites who were stimulated by Alabama governor George Wallace, a populist Democrat. Richard Nixon called the latter constituency the Silent Majority and it was also part of what Richard Scammon and Ben Wattenberg called the Real Majority. Scammon and Wattenberg, who were Democrats, argued in their 1970 book The Real Majority that this voting bloc was typified by a 47-year-old wife of a machinist in Dayton, Ohio, and that winning her vote was the key to getting a Democrat back into the White House.
3 posted on 09/04/2026 6:55:19 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill

Which explains how they created the image of a “good Christian Southerner” who deep down was a Marxist, in the form of Jimmy Carter.


4 posted on 09/04/2026 6:56:54 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Fiji Hill
...winning her vote was the key to getting a Democrat back into the White House...

They argue like that is good thing.

It's not.

Keeping the democrats out of office should be the goal.

5 posted on 09/04/2026 7:11:53 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The greatest power the media has is the power to ignore.)
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