my half baked sociological theory that politics breaks is that jews, irish and italians are one ethnic group now
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and civil rights
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I think Jews had a more sympathetic view of the civil rights movement because of recent history
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This split is in the 1970s though, isn't it? War on Poverty, Civil Rights movement heading to the North, Vietnam, crime and riots, busing, etc. are all the boxes I'd check on "white ethnics" moving to the Right. Certainly isn't before 1966, look at the Kennedy election.
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@dick_nixon spent a lot of time between 1968 and 1972 courting the white ethnics, with the help of Pat Buchanan and Kevin Philips. Doubt if Buchanan was interested in courting Jewish vote - Show replies
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