At Sammy's wedding Marguerite looked around and saw the old relatives who had disappeared from sight once her father had moved to a better neighborhood. Now there they were again, the derelicts and left-behinds.
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At Sammy's wedding Marguerite looked around and saw the old relatives who had disappeared from sight once her father had moved to a better neighborhood. Now there they were again, the derelicts and left-behinds.
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The political resurgence of Islamic fundamentalist parties in Middle Eastern countries (the Welfare Party in Turkey), the unions in India and unemployment in China are all signs that left-behinds are starting to challenge the winners.
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He would refer to 'the dregs' of society in regard to those who were the left-behinds in Liverpool's impoverished areas - it was not an age of 'political correctness'.
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Kenworthy's thesis does not contradict Frank's emphasis on the family-values propaganda blitz. It simply claims than an earlier shift to the right by the white working-class left-behinds preceded the values-blitz, and suggests that values carried on, or even exacerbated, their shift to the right.
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