Cultural Conservatism: Toward a New National Agenda (The Institute for Cultural Conservatism/Free Congress Research and Education Foundation, Washington, D.C., 146 pp., $7.95)
The blue-collar voter has been the object of conservative attention for over ten years. Kevin Phillips, following the lead of William Rusher, has repeatedly called for an alliance between the traditional Republican Right and the hard-hats and populists who supported prayer in school and war in Vietnam. The two groups did finally unite behind Ronald Reagan. However, the conservative/populist cleavage in the Reagan coalition will become critical if Jack Kemp fails to galvanize working-class support.
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