Lows faded because the social issues that nurtured them disappeared by the late 1970s.

Evidence

Why? Well, Lows probably waned in the first place because the societal issues that nurtured their development in the late 1960s and early 1970s largely disappeared. The civil rights movement drifted to the back pages of newspapers, the war in Vietnam ended, Nixon resigned. But why then did so many young people Velcro themselves onto Ronald Reagan, Brian Mulroney, and Margaret Thatcher? — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 1154

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The 1970s debate over behavior control marks a social discontinuity with the present — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1014