MODERN POLITICS, GRASSROOTS REFORM,
AND POLITICAL CULTURE

I. DEMOGRAPHICS AND ECONOMIC CHANGES IN THE 1960S

1. Presidential Primary of 1960

2. WV politics in the sixties

3. The War on Poverty and the Appalachian Regional Commission

4. The Farmington Disaster (1968) and Grassroots Local Action Groups

a.) Assoc. of Disabled Miners and Widows

b.) Black Lung Assoc.

c.) Murder of Jock Yablonski and the Miners for Democracy

II. THE BUFFALO CREEK DISASTER (1972)

1. The disaster

2. The court case and what it revealed

2. Gov. Arch Moore

3. Gov. John D. "Jay" Rockefeller IV

III. AMERICAN POLITICAL CULTURES AND THEIR DISSEMINATION

1. Moralistic Political Culture

2. Individualistic Political Culture

3. Traditionalistic Political Culture

4. Appalachian Variant