Word: midwesterners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Months before, the Vice President had turned down an invitation to speak at the Midwestern Regional Republican Conference in Des Moines. Last week, just two days before the meeting was to begin, Agnew suddenly reinvited himself. The conference chairman hastily hired the Fort Des Moines Hotel ballroom and scheduled Agnew as the klieg-light speaker. Agnew's words were written by Buchanan, who is a hard-line conservative, and vetted in the upper echelons of Nixon's personal staff...
...that read: "Whether what I've said to you tonight will be seen and heard at all by the nation is not my decision, it's their decision." Hence "they," the three television networks, had their cameras warm and waiting when Spiro Agnew arrived to address the Midwestern Regional Republican Conference...
...most of the nation, TIME correspondents found that the size and vitality of the M-day turnout exceeded dispassionate expectations. Even in the Midwestern heartland, reported Chicago Bureau Chief Champ Clark, "so many of these folks?far from being professional liberals or agitators or youths simply trying to avoid the draft?were pure, straight middle-class adults who had simply decided, in their own pure, straight middle-class way, that it was time for the U.S. to get the hell out of the war in Viet...
...California hospital official who is no relation to the Detroit Fords.* He bought his first used Edsel in 1959, out of curiosity, and now owns six. "I had to fulfill the image" that the name conveyed, he explains. There are even more zealous owners, such as the Midwestern doctor who owns 13 Edsels, the Marine in Viet Nam who had his Edsel shipped to Hawaii to be closer to him, and the long-distance bus driver who, when he sees an Edsel, stops his bus and tries to buy the car on the spot. There are still about...
Accordingly, Phillips would work toward a Republican majority* by embracing disgruntled white former Democrats. He sees voting strength in the suburbanites who flee the cities when the blacks move in. He would plow the Midwestern blue-collar enclaves, where white lower-middle-class voters fear economic competition from ambitious blacks. Special emphasis would be given to what he calls the "sun belt"-prospering areas such as Florida, Texas, Arizona and California-where middle-class whites cherish their freshly earned fortunes...