"Never argue with the Gallup Poll": Thomas Dewey, civil rights and the election of 1948

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Thomas Dewey, the progressive Republican governor of New York from 1942 to 1954, lost presidential elections in 1948 against Harry S. Truman whose victory was credited to the farm vote indicating that without the votes of African-Americans Truman's victory was impossible. The reasons for Dewey's failure are examined by surveying his record on civil rights as a governor and his abject failure to convert the African-American votes in 1948.

Surveys, Governors, Civil rights, Dewey, Thomas E.

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Lawrence Welk and John Wooden: Midwestern small-town boys who never left home

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A case study of Lawrence Welk, a town kid and John Wooden, a farm kid, two Midwestern youths who conserved and propagated the values with which they were brought up and which were time tested and true for them is discussed. Through this study the importance of place in people's lives that provides the setting for socialization process and established parameters within which one can act is highlighted.

Youth, Evaluation, Teenagers, Socialization

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The berders of time, place, and people in John Sayles's Lone Star

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John Sayles's considers Lone star to be a story about borders and it is also the embodiment of a frontier film. The frontier occupies a dramatic and prominent position in American history and culture and is regarded as the special domain of Western.

Criticism and interpretation, Works, Filmmakers, Movie directors, Lone Star (Motion picture), Sayles, John

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