Rhetoric such as this tapped into the persisting undercurrent of regional, class, and ethnic resentments that raged beneath the surface of American society in the postwar era. Like McCarthy and his allies, the Chicago Tribune regularly assailed liberal eastern intellectuals, on one occasion carrying the headline HARVARD TELLS INDIANA HOW TO VOTE. Its columns regularly associated virile masculinity with anti-Communism and implied that Stevenson was something less than a "real man." The New York Daily News, a bitterly reactionary paper, referred to Adlai as "Adelaide" and said that he "trilled"
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