<HTML>In a message dated 8/6/2002 1:24:41 PM Pacific Daylight Time, dhenwood@panix.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">They accepted unions right after WW2 because they thought they didn't have much choice. Thirty years later they started busting them in earnest (not that they were ever so mighty in the south). Why, if the co-optation/distraction strategy was so effective? </BLOCKQUOTE> Would the precense of the Soviet Union and the Cold war contribute to this? </HTML>