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- Title
THE BARONS OF MIDDLETOWN AND THE DECLINE OF THE NORTH-EASTERN ANGLO-PROTESTANT ELITE.
- Authors
Schatz, Ronald W.
- Abstract
The article discusses the loss of political power of white Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs) in the industrial towns of the Northeastern U.S. in the mid-20th century through an analysis of the history of the Protestant gentry of Middletown, Connecticut. The author notes the gentry's adherence to the Republican Party beginning and traces the decline in power to the 1936 flood of the Connecticut River, which primarily affected the city's Sicilian immigrant working population, with which elites had previously held amicable industrial relations. The subsequent machinists strike at the Remington Rand Corporation factory is outlined as well.
- Subjects
MIDDLETOWN (Conn.); WASPS (Persons); ELITE (Social sciences); REPUBLICAN Party (U.S. : 1854- ); IMMIGRANTS; INDUSTRIAL relations; STRIKES &; lockouts; REMINGTON Rand Inc.; FLOODS; HISTORY; MACHINERY industry
- Publication
Past & Present, 2013, Vol 219, Issue 1, p165
- ISSN
0031-2746
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/pastj/gts046