ID's Flashcards

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The New Conservatives
1960’s
U.S. born in southern california
commitment to individualism coupled with a commitment to moral virtue. often described as a three-legged stool.

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Three-legged stool
Binds together Foreign policy conservatives, Economic conservatives, Cultural conservatives.
New conservative coalition that is committed to individualism with public morality
created by transplants that came to california in the 50’s and 60’s either serving in the war or working in the defense industry

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Barry Goldwater "Mr. Conservative"
1964
U.S.
republican party nominee for president
his nomination symbolizes the growing power of conservatives in the republican party
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Senator from Arizona

voted against the civil rights act

the republican party was now a conservative party and has remained that ever since

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Southern Strategy
late 60’s early 70’s
U.S.
Designed to win over Democratic voters in the south
using coded veiled language that targeted racial minorites
“law and order” “freedom of association”

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the republican party turns blue states in the south who had been blue for 100 years into the red states they are today

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The Me Decade
1970’s
U.S.
individualism, commitment to me, fitness became very popular, New Age

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the ’70s was me moment commitment to self-development self-actualization
created the contemporary era of the concern about the body
popular doc named pumping iron introduces us to the terminator Arnold

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Operation Wetback
1954
U.S.
military invades mexican american neighborhoods to round up and deport them
by 1955 1 million mexicans and mexican americans deported

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by 1955 1 million mexicans and mexican americans deported

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Hart Cellar Act
1965
U.S.
opens our borders to nations that had previously been excluded Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean

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ends quota system
290,000 yearly cap
law centered immigration on family reunification

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The New Immigrants
1965-present
U.S.
immigrants that come from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean

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The New Immigrants

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Prop 187
1994
California
prop 187 wins 63% of whites supported it

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“Save our State”
in CA bar illegal immigrants from access state services including health care and public education
Required legal status to be proven required state officials to report illegal immigrants to Federal authorities
overturned because it was deemed unconstitutional
only federal can enforce immigration laws

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