who becomes conservative

[Michael Eisenscher]

The end of WWII unleashed tremendous pent-up consumer demand that staved off
the oft predicted postwar recession.  Add to that Cold War spending, the
purge of labor's Left, the McCarthyite assault on liberalism in the name of
fighting communism, driving women workers back into the kitchen,
suburbanization, the construction of the National Defense Highway System and
its impact on auto sales and mobility, etc, etc, etc, and you have lots of
raw material for a dramatic culture and ideological shift.

Michael

At 07:44 AM 7/9/98 -0700, michael wrote:
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>Michael Eisenscher wrote asked who did not become conservative after WW II.  I
>would like to ask what was at work here?
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>I get the sense that an important factor was that, after WW II, the
American dream
>seemed to be in reach for most people [except those excluded by the racial
>divide].  Earlier waves of immigrants, Finns, Jews, ... who had a long
struggle to
>achieve prosperity maintained a substrantial reservoir of radicalism.
>
>Other than the excessive generalizations and stereotyping involved in such
>speculation, am I off base here?
>--
>Michael Perelman
>Economics Department
>California State University
>Chico, CA 95929
>
>Tel. 530-898-5321
>E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
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