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backlash seems to be as much operative with seemingly economic gains as recession. The last presidential election occurred at a time when there was supposed to be economic gain. This is a part of Mr. Reagan's luck. If it had happened two or three years earlier, there would have been a recession.

My feeling is that even in the recession whites could blame blacks for affirmative action and quotas and, you know, for the recession. The vote in the presidential election did not occur during the recession, in spite of the fact of substantial unemployment. What has not been made clear by the press or the media is that in this period of economic growth and stability, in actual numbers the unemployed is as great as it was at the time of the recession. But that's not the perspective. He said there's a decrease. That means 7.8 unemployed. Actually it's a unemployed.

The illusion of economic stability is to me again one of the fascinating realities of this time. The acceptance of economic inequities-- except for some sporadic outbreaks, such as the recent concerns of the farmers, when they were really upset about the fact that the government was no longer helping them to function even tenuously, and they marched on Washington. But that didn't stave this work environment.

I must tell you in all honesty, because I saw that development among the farmers, their concern-- I kept wondering how many of them had voted for Reagan.