Yes this is my homework. And yes, I should be doing it myself. I just cannot find the answer to this question... all of the others on the assignment I have had little or no problem with. Please help me... thanks so much.
"To what extent did McCarthy express insecurities and resentments about class differences"
2006-11-07 13:13:07 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
By the people he accused of being Communists; Hollywood and intellectual types, plus well heeled liberals.
2006-11-07 13:23:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you need to look at the red scare of the 1950s (McCarthy was certainly not personally responsible for the whole thing) in terms of anti-intellectualism and middle-American resentment of the coastal elites. McCarthy grew up on a farm in Wisconsin, so he couldn't have been more middle-American. Those who were persecuted (some not unfairly) were mostly well-educated and sometimes wealthy people. Some of the persecuted were obvious "outsiders"-Jews, immigrants, etc. Aside the real threat that the USSR poised, the persecuted were the "other" to the people that McCarthy's demagoguery appealed to.
2006-11-07 18:10:20 · answer #2 · answered by michinoku2001 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this is precisely it. McCarthy replaced right into a great patriot. He could have been somewhat paranoid, yet he had sturdy reason. Spys interior the U. S. government have been the worst situation to ever take place in the process the chilly conflict interior the U. S. government. the certainty that he replaced into attempting to disclose those human beings replaced into what have been given him into enormous difficulty. Thats while human beings began calling it a witch hunt. He could have been severe, yet basically because of the fact he replaced into attempting to guard the rustic against communists.
2016-10-15 12:26:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋