Electronic/World Wide Web>Internet Video:  Harris-Perry, Melissa (12/30/2011), History Understands Where Nostalgia Obscures, The Rachel Maddow Show, Retrieved on 2012-01-03
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  • Folksonomies: politics nostalgia

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    03 JAN 2012

     History Yes, Nostalgia No

    mitt romney believes in cornfields and grandpas, also touchscreens and robots. okay. more cornfields and large farming equipment and old american cars. here's another mitt romney ad. it's called american optimism. it's 30 seconds long. do you see a single eperson who looks to be anything other than white? anyone? he's showing people who turn out to see him in very white states like iowa and new hampshire. that's the point. when you look back with longing at the america of yesteryear, it helps...
    Folksonomies: history nostalgia
    Folksonomies: history nostalgia
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    Nostalgia selectively remembers the past through rose-colored glasses, forgetting the injustices that were legal and culturally accepted in previous decades and centuries.

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