Title: The neglected voter : white men and the Democratic dilemma /
Authors: Kuhn, David Paul.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Elections United States; Voting United States; Political participation United States; Men, White United States Attitudes.; Sex role Political aspects United States.
Contents: The white male gap -- Up from the ashes, the new conservatism, and the white everyman -- From the apex of liberalism to the decline of Democrats (1962-1968) -- Southern man -- Blue-collar backlash: Nixon and the men he understood (1969-1972) -- The breakup of the FDR coalition and the false dawn of Carter (1972-1979) -- The measure of the man: the politics of personal manhood -- God, manhood, and moral values -- The strategic rise of Reagan and the white male gap (1980) -- Millett versus Mailer: Vietnam, feminism, and white manhood as vice -- The peculiar American conservatism, patriotism, and the classic male (1981-1984) -- Echo-chamber journalism and living with the like-minded -- The value of grit -- Against God and country: the perception of the effete liberal elitist (1988) -- Those who work hard and play by the rules (1992) -- The angry white male: kicked out and charged with abandonment -- The hard way, and soccer moms -- Politics of the common man and gun culture -- The "feminine party" in wartime: Bush, Kerry, and bravado (2004-2007) -- The political culture of white manhood: taxed, downsized, emasculated, dreaming, believing, and antagonized -- Reconciliation: white men and Democrats, toward 2008 and 2012.