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The Cultural Politics Of Dan Quayle And Mike Pence, Steve Sanders
The Cultural Politics Of Dan Quayle And Mike Pence, Steve Sanders
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This essay was part of an Indiana Law Review symposium on the five U.S. vice presidents who have hailed from Indiana.
The Gallup polling organization classifies Indiana as a “pink” state, rather than a “red” state, meaning it leans Republican but is not solidly in the GOP column. Yet, if an image of Indiana persists in many people’s minds as a bastion of social conservatism and tradition, that image likely has been shaped in part by the two most recent vice presidents the Hoosier state has sent to Washington: Dan Quayle and Mike Pence.
In selecting their running mates, major …