Throughout history and popular culture there has often been a division manufactured between what are known as the “elite doves”…

In the words of historian Penny Lewis, “we have misremembered the working class as particularly hawkish during Vietnam.” As opposed…

During the late 1960s and early 1970s, a so-called “silent majority” was gaining a lot of attention in media and…

The Vietnam War era is often remembered as a time of deep social and political divisions in the United States.…

George Wallace and Richard Nixon used the idea of “elite doves” versus “reactionary hardhats” to gain support from white working-class…

During the late 1960s and early 1970s, the American working class became more diverse as more people of color and…

While it is easy to say the split over Vietnam in the late 60s and early 70s was between elite…

 I think that he argues for the split over Vietnam in the late 1960s and early 1970s because of the…