I think what people forget, including the authors of that LA Times article, was that just as the '60s experienced the rise of the New Left, so it also saw the rise of a new right, propelled by the Goldwater campaign of 1964. Both the New Left and the new right were boomer phenomena, but generally not the same people were involved in both (with a few exceptions).
Jim F. http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant
---------- Original Message ---------- From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] LA Times: Most 'tea party' followers are baby boomers reliving the '60s Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:26:57 -0500
On Feb 26, 2010, at 1:07 PM, Joseph Catron wrote:
> "Oceans of ink, terabytes of blog space and an eternity of
> television time
> have been devoted to the latest object of media fascination, the
> 'tea party'
> movement. Now (finally!), a poll conducted by CNN gives us some hard
> data on
> the Tea Party Nation."
>
> http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-ellis25-2010feb25,0,5318715.story
Hmm, the authors: "Jim Spencer and Curtis Ellis are Democratic political consultants...."
This is the same CNN poll we discussed here the other day. It showed that the TPers are white, rural Protestants. That's hardly the retread 60s demographic these guys are assigning to them.
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