Timeline for What does the phrase "to create a new national majority" refer to?
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| Jul 22, 2015 at 15:30 | comment | added | Jarl | @Dan Bron I can't agree with you more about your last comment. You are right. As to the meaning of the sentence and the phrase, I recommend that you read the explanations given by WS2 below. I think his interpretations are rather satisfactory. :) | |
| Jul 22, 2015 at 15:10 | comment | added | Dan Bron | Jarl: Yes, that's right, but isn't necessarily the whole story. Roosevelt's new majority definitely included those people who were not previously accepted, but there may have been more to it than that. In other words: there's more than one way to create a new majority; if there were enough not-accepted people to overrule the accepted-people, then organizing them would be sufficient. But that's not usually the case, so in addition to organizing the not-accepted people, he may have also changed the mind of some, or many, accepted people. | |
| Jul 22, 2015 at 15:08 | vote | accept | Jarl | ||
| Jul 22, 2015 at 15:00 | answer | added | WS2 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 22, 2015 at 14:34 | comment | added | Jarl | @Dan Bron So please let me paraphrase the sentence. Could you please help me check it if it is right? | |
| Jul 22, 2015 at 14:19 | comment | added | Dan Bron | Jarl: nope, that "cast" is part of the phrasal verb "cast aside", which means "discarded" or "thrown out". The broader context is "those cast aside", where "those" is a set of people, and thus "those cast aside" means "those [people] [previous society had] [disenfranchised]". That's what I meant by the final two sentences in my previous comment: the socially disadvantaged, who had been disenfranchised by the prior majority now formed part of Roosevelt's new majority. Get it? | |
| Jul 22, 2015 at 14:16 | comment | added | Jarl | @Dan Bron Thank you for your reasonable explanations. But the word "cast" that follows is highly likely to mean "cast a vote", so the word "majority" means a majority of votes for Roosevelt. Do you agree on it? :) | |
| Jul 22, 2015 at 14:02 | vote | accept | Jarl | ||
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| Jul 22, 2015 at 14:00 | answer | added | Rahul Katariya | timeline score: -1 | |
| Jul 22, 2015 at 13:51 | comment | added | Dan Bron | In this case, a majority means a majority of opinion. After Roosevelt acted, an opinion or set of opinions was held by a majority of US citizens; that was not the case before he acted. Roosevelt created [a situation where] a majority [of US citizens] [held a specific set of political/social/ethical beliefs]. Part of the people who now held these beliefs, who formed part of this majority of opinion, were people who had been socially disadvantaged prior to the shift. That is, they had been disenfranchised by the prior majority. | |
| Jul 22, 2015 at 13:48 | history | edited | Dan Bron | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 22, 2015 at 13:44 | history | asked | Jarl | CC BY-SA 3.0 |