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The white South has voted Republican at the presidential level since the 1950s and at the state and local level since the 1990s. In the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan rejuvenated the conservative Republican ideology, with tax cuts, greatly increased defense spending, deregulation, a policy of rolling back communism, a greatly strengthened ...
Bassist in glam metal band Mr. Big and hard rock supergroup The Winery Dogs: Don Dokken: 1953 - Lead singer and founder of glam metal band Dokken [250] Ross the Boss: 1954 - Founding member of proto-punk band The Dictators and heavy metal band Manowar [251] Martin O'Donnell: 1955 - Video game composer [252] Glenn Danzig: 1955 -
In his first term, Reagan introduced expansionary fiscal policies aimed at stimulating the American economy after a recession in 1981 and 1982, including oil deregulation policies which led to the 1980s oil glut. He met with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in four summit conferences, culminating with the signing of the INF Treaty.
President Obama chides Mitt Romney for calling Russia, and not Al Qaeda, the No. 1 threat to the United
During the 1980 presidential campaign, Gov. Reagan called for the total elimination of the U.S. Department of Education, severe curtailment of bilingual education, and massive cutbacks in the federal role in education. [citation needed] When Reagan was elected in 1980, the federal share of total education spending was 12 percent. When he left ...
Democratic and Republican Party elites and elected officials became more divided on the issue of abortion in the 1980s. Still, Ronald Reagan ran and won the election in 1980, stating he was against all abortions except for saving the life of the mother. He firmly supported Roe v. Wade being overturned and a constitutional amendment banning ...
In hip hop music, political hip hop, or political rap, is a form developed in the 1980s, inspired by 1970s political preachers such as The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron. Public Enemy were the first political hip hop group to gain commercial success. [ 1 ]
Through the 1980s, Falwell was the organization's best-known spokesperson. By 1982, Moral Majority surpassed Christian Voice in size and influence. The Moral Majority's headquarters were in Lynchburg, Virginia , where Falwell was the presiding minister of the nation's largest independent Baptist church, Thomas Road Baptist Church .