Anti-busing parents weaponized Nixon’s ‘Silent Majority’ rhetoric against him.

Evidence

The suburban parents in Charlotte’s antibusing movement sent a deluge of letters and telegrams to the White House, following the CPA’s directive to “write the President every day.” During the first two weeks of February alone, Richard Nixon received more than five thousand pieces of correspondence from residents of metropolitan Charlotte, many of whom directed the Silent Majority trope back at the politician they had voted for two years earlier. — Matthew D. Lassiter, The Suburban Origins of “Color-Blind”…, 72

Categorization

• SHARE: Good for someone studying rhetorical appropriation or the turn of an incumbent’s slogan against him by his own base.
• XREF: connects to: White suburban antibusing parents weaponized the Silent Majority trope against Nixon — Matthew D. Lassiter, The Suburban Origins of “Color-Blind”…, 72; The Nixon administration nationalized the suburban color-blind stance against busing in 1970. — Matthew D. Lassiter, The Suburban Origins of “Color-Blind”…, 76

Broader Connections

• White suburban antibusing parents weaponized the Silent Majority trope against Nixon #corroborates (1.00) — Matthew D. Lassiter, The Suburban Origins of “Color-Blind”…, 72
• The Nixon administration nationalized the suburban color-blind stance against busing in 1970. #expands (0.78) — Matthew D. Lassiter, The Suburban Origins of “Color-Blind”…, 76