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silent majority
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n. 1 (context chiefly US politics English) The largest portion of a demographic group or of the population of a political jurisdiction, which is considered to possess political and social views that are not openly declared, but that can nevertheless significantly affect voting patterns and social behavior. 2 (context archaic euphemistic English) Those who are dead.
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The silent majority is an unspecified large group of people in a country or group who do not express their opinions publicly. The term was popularized by United States President Richard Nixon in a November 3, 1969, speech in which he said, "And so tonight—to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans—I ask for your support." In this usage it referred to those Americans who did not join in the large demonstrations against the Vietnam War at the time, who did not join in the counterculture, and who did not participate in public discourse. Nixon along with many others saw this group of Middle Americans as being overshadowed in the media by the more vocal minority.
Preceding Nixon by half a century, it was employed in 1919 by Calvin Coolidge's campaign for the 1920 Presidential nomination. Before that, the phrase was used in the 19th century as a euphemism referring to all the people who have died, and others have used it before and after Nixon to refer to groups of voters in various nations of the world.
Silent Majority is a fictional character in the DC Universe. He first appeared in Batman and the Outsiders Annual #1 (1984), as a member of the government-sponsored superhero team the Force of July.
Silent Majority was a Swiss rap and hip hop music group. Founded in 1994 they were produced by Goetz ( U2, Faithless). Considered turntable pioneers at the forefront of Swiss hip-hop. Silent Majority are unusual within the scene, defining themselves as "funky multi-linguals", and rap in "a mixture of English, Jamaican patois, French, Spanish and Swahili."
The members of Silent Majority decided to split up right after the release of their last album, Nightbloomers, in 1998.
The silent majority, a term made famous by Richard Nixon, is an unspecified majority of people in a demographic who are perceived as not expressing their opinions publicly.
Silent Majority may also refer to:
- Silent Majority (hip hop group), a Swiss hip hop group
- Silent Majority (comics), a DC Comics character
- "Silent Majority" (song), song by Keyakizaka46
- Silent Majority (Terry Allen's Greatest Missed Hits), an album by Terry Allen
- Silent Majority Group, a record label
Silent Majority (Terry Allen's Greatest Missed Hits) is an album by artist Terry Allen in 1992. The liner notes describe the album as follows: “It is a compilation of out-takes, in-takes, mis-takes, work tapes, added tos, taken froms, omissions and foreign materials.” The album was originally released by Fate Records, and has since been reissued by Sugar Hill Records.
is the debut single by the Japanese girl idol group Keyakizaka46. It was released in Japan on 6 April 2016 on the label Sony Records.
The center position in the choreography for the title song is held by Yurina Hirate.
The single was number-one on the Oricon Weekly Singles Chart, with 261,580 copies sold. It was also number-one on the Billboard Japan Hot 100.
Usage examples of "silent majority".
With his American roots, he was considered a man around whom the silent majority of loyalists might rally.
The mood of the nation was changing, the crust of the benevolent Great Society beginning to crack, the lesions initiated with code words coined by the Nixon boys, such as the Silent Majority and Bums-on-Welfare and the pejorative them.
But then Rabbit is an extreme middle-American, a voluble and foul-mouthed representative of the silent majority.