The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia

Politics

Politics SECTION EDITOR Peverill Squire 26414_U21.qxd 7/7/06 11:30 AM Page 1611 Overview 1614 The Agrarian Roots of Midwestern Politics 1618 Center Ring or Sideshow? The Role of the Midwest in National Politics 1621 William Henry Harrison (1773–1841) and Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901): The Rise of the Midwest in Nineteenth-Century Politics 1623 Presidential Ticket-Balancing 1625 The Iowa Precinct Caucuses 1627 Joseph Gurney Cannon (1836–1926) 1628 Everett McKinley Dirksen (1896–1969) 1628 Robert Joseph Dole (b. 1923) 1629 Stephen Arnold Douglas (1813–1861) 1629 Dwight David Eisenhower (1890–1969) 1629 Gerald Rudolph Ford (b. 1913) 1630 Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885) 1630 Marcus Alonzo Hanna (1837–1904) 1631 Warren G. Harding (1865–1923) 1631 Herbert Hoover (1874–1964) 1632 Nancy Landon Kassebaum (b. 1932) 1633 Alfred Mossman Landon (1887–1987) 1633 Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 1633 George Stanley McGovern (b. 1922) 1634 William McKinley, Jr. (1843–1901) 1635 Walter Frederick Mondale (b. 1928) 1636 John Sherman (1823–1900) 1636 Paul Simon (1928–2003) 1636 Adlai Ewing Stevenson (1900–1965) 1637 William Howard Taft (1857–1930) 1638 Harry S Truman (1884–1972) 1638 Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg (1884–1951) 1639 Wendell Lewis Willkie (1892–1944) 1639 Coleman Alexander Young (1918–1997) 1640 Social Agitation 1640 Utopians and Radical Reformers 1643 The Lincoln–Douglas Debates 1645 The Copperheads and Clement Vallandigham 1646 William Jennings Bryan (1860–1925) and the Rise and Fall of Populism 1646 Temperance and Prohibition 1648 The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union 1650 Pacifism and Opposition to Particular Conflicts 1650 Students for a Democratic Society 1653 Robert M. La Follette (1855–1925) and the Reform Element in Midwestern Politics 1654 The Ku Klux Klan 1655 The Midwest and the American Indian Movement 1657 The Black Civil Rights Movement 1659 Jesse Jackson (b. 1941) and PUSH 1661 The Women’s Movement before 1950 1662 Feminism 1663 Kent State 1664 The Port Huron Statement 1665 Abortion and Politics 1666 The Politics of Gay Rights 1667 Father Charles Edward Coughlin (1891–1979) 1668 Betty Friedan (1921–2006) 1668 Richard G. Hatcher (b. 1933) 1669 Eugene Joseph McCarthy (1916–2005) 1670 Joseph McCarthy (1908–1957) 1671 George William Norris (1861–1944) 1671 Gloria Steinem (b. 1934) 1672 The Interest Group Universe 1672 Isolationism and Globalism 1675 The Evolution of the Political Party System 1677 John Bayard Anderson (b. 1922) 1679 Raymond Charles Bliss (1907–1981) 1680 Jesse Ventura (b. 1951) 1680 Henry Agard Wallace (1888–1965) 1681 James Baird Weaver (1833–1912) 1681 The Political Cultures 1682 Why Some Midwestern Governors Serve for So Long 1686 Harold Royce Gross (1899–1987) and the Curmudgeonly Side of Midwestern Politics 1687 Immigrants and the Shaping of Midwestern Politics 1688 The Missouri Plan, or the Merit System 1690 The Northwest Ordinance 1691 Section Contents 26414_U21.qxd 7/7/06 11:30 AM Page 1612 Civic Life and Political Participation 1691 Electoral Rules and Procedures 1694 The Emergence of African Americans as a Political Force 1695 Political Campaigning 1697 Labor and Politics in the Sweeney Era 1699 The Regional Political Economy 1699 The Politician and Political Machines 1701 Unicameralism in Nebraska 1702 The Evolving Role of Women in Midwestern Politics 1703 Jayne Byrne (b. 1934) 1706 Carrie Lane Chapman Catt (1859–1947) 1706 “Will It Play in Peoria?” Public Opinion in Regional and National Politics 1707 Hubert Horatio Humphrey (1911–1978) and Liberalism in the Midwest 1709 Robert Alphonso Taft (1889–1953) and Main Street Conservatism 1711 Politics v 1613 Phyllis Schlafly (b. 1924) and the Basis of Family Values 1713 George Horace Gallup (1901–1984) 1714 Robert Rutherford McCormick (1880–1955) 1714 William Allen White (1868–1944) 1715 Political Thought and Action 1715 Arthur Bentley and the Birth of Group Theory in American Politics 1718 Milton Friedman and the Chicago School of Economics 1719 The Midwest and Understanding American Politics 1720 Posner, Easterbrook, and Economic Approaches to the Law 1722 The Midwest and the Rise of Survey Research 1723 Are Midwesterners Bowling Alone? Social Capital and Midwestern Life 1724 26414_U21.qxd 7/7/06 11:30 AM Page 1613 Overview The existence of the Midwest as a political region in American politics is widely assumed. A Lexis-Nexis search of major newspapers for the six months from October 2003 through March 2004, for example, reveals almost three hundred news stories explicitly linking the region with the 2004 presidential election. But to what extent is the Midwest...