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idea how to get them home with honor. He gives President Nixon a
generally favorable rating (highest in the South) and is inclined to
prolong the new President's honeymoon, but he shows no deep enthu-
siasm for Mr. Nixon. 11
perfy
The article is abundant with quotes from working-class Ameri
mini
cans. The quotes all have one thing in common: a sense of things
falling apart, of being cheated, of rage against liberal intellectuals
etc
and liberal politicians, hippies, militant blacks. A typical quote
from a Kalamazoo, Michigan, housewife: "There's racial problems,
money problems, more crime
Everything has gone to pieces."
Another from a construction foreman in Baltimore: "The
middle-class family is just forgotten. 11
Fifty-eight percent think, "The U.S. is likely to change for the
worse over the next decade, 11 59% think the danger of racial violence
is increasing, 85% think black militants have been treated too lightly,
and 84% think college demonstrators have been treated too leniently.
Yet, paradoxically enough, nearly two-thirds feel that five years from
now they will be at least as well off as they are today or better off.
This paradox can be explained. They see material advances but
at the same time see old-time values falling apart: "Indeed, the most
deeply rooted source of the white American malaise is the plain fact
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