HIS271Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Fall Of Saigon, Anti-Ballistic Missile, Watergate Complex
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While the 60s are the zenith of liberalism, there was also a concurrent rise of the right. Prior to the 60s, the right found home among those who had been staunch cold. Warriors who thought that politicians were too weak on communism. The second group comprised of those who opposed big government, viz. By the early 60s, the right was also attracting many white southerners who were furious at black gains and the government"s role in helping to foster those gains via the civil rights act and the voting rights act. By the end, the right was also attracting. Middle americans in the north, comprising those who were increasingly antagonized that were happening in the 60s and who were uncomfortable with minority rights militancy, the anti-war movement, etc. This group of people went to the right to oppose the excesses of the 60s. The republicans, coming into the 1968 election, began drawing upon middle americans" resentment.
