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WHITE CLAIMS MIDDLE CLASS DOMINANT OVER ALMOST ALL THE WEST

Protestant, Liberal and Agrarian Class Knits West into Strongest Unit in U.S., Says Editor

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With democracy anchored to the hearts of its people, the West remains the stronghold of Protestant, middle class liberalism, William Allen White, famous Kansas journalist told his audience last night in the second of three lectures in the New Lecture Hall.

While portraying a composite picture of life and conditions in the West of today, White took an optimistic viewpoint, but in closing, he sounded an ominous note regarding the "symptoms of injustice and unrest facing the Christian world today from the Caspian to Honolulu."

"Profoundly middle class," he states, "the West, in which I include the twenty four states north of the Mason-Dixon Line between Pittsburgh and the Pacific, are basically one, and, opposed to both the East and the South, are the strongest single force in the Senate.

"The little red schoolhouse, which with the little white church formed the basis of the early West, is now doing a good deal better than the white church. In fact on the edge of one out of five typical western county seat towns, a small college has grown up with half a dozen buildings, a stadium, and cars parked all over the lot," he added.

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