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Apple looks to solve the problem of noise when your phone vibrates… with new patent
Posted By Enrique Manalang On November 16, 2012 @ 1:00 AM In General Tech,iOS | 2 Comments
Have you ever been bothered by that awful noise your phone makes when it vibrates against a table? Isn't it very common for that noise to be even louder than the phone itself? Better yet, doesn't this seem to always happen when you want your phone to not make noise — such as when you put your phone on silent? The noise that the vibration makes pretty much defeats the purpose of putting your phone on silent in the first place, doesn't it? Apple [2] is (hopefully) going to try and change that.
Apple Insider reports that Apple has filed a patent [3] that seeks to eliminate this vibration noise issue by utilizing the iPhone's accelerometer in conjunction with its mic to detect when the phone is making too much noise due to vibration against a surface. It will then dial down the intensity of the vibration to minimize that noise and use alternatives to alert the user of notifications, such as soft sounds or screen light-ups.
Neat, huh? As someone who has experienced it too many times, this is awesome. But will we see this feature in the next iOS? Who knows. Here's hoping that it'll come eventually and it will work as intended.
Has this bothered you before? Or is it a non-issue? Let us know in the comments [4] below!
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Halloween came to Paris while we lived there in the mid- to late 1990s, and now seems likely to remain: A patina of pumpkins colors the streets, and while the business of kids dressing as demons to demand unearned sugar troubles what remains of the French Catholic conscience, Halloween's essential role is to be the opening salvo of the holiday season. And though Père Noël remains ascetic-looking and gaunt compared with the rotund American materialist Santa Claus, the Christmas holiday he superintends in France is ever more like ours and less like theirs was—more of a commercial potlatch and less a feast in many ways tragic. (The baby, after all, will die; the best French Baroque Christmas music, like Charpentier's famous "O"s, is most often sad.)
Between these two holidays comes Thanksgiving, and that was hard to find, or, for that matter, make. Thanksgiving still has no place in France, which made my wife and me sad when we lived there, because it has always been our favorite holiday. There isn't even a word for it; or, rather, there is only a long phrase, borrowed from French Canada, where it's a legal holiday, though celebrated much earlier in the calendar: la fête de l'Action de grâces, or the feast of the action of grace! (Though in my Canadian childhood, I never once heard it used: Thanksgiving was what it was called. In Quebec.)
We wanted to celebrate Thanksgiving in Paris because it's always been one of our favorite holidays, for reasons that take a moment's unpacking. In one of his early novels, Letting Go, Philip Roth has a chapter, called "The Power of Thanksgiving," where he celebrates the November Thursday as the one high secular holiday equally open to people of faith and nonbelievers—or, more poignantly in his narrator's case, to Jews just as much as the goyim. (Thanksgiving is a whole subject in Roth; the cruelest thing Portnoy does to his parents is not show up when he goes to college, in order to visit his girlfriend's impeccably WASP holiday house.) That's part of it, for me, that sense of common ownership. But it was also more personal. Thanksgiving turkey was the first big thing I ever made for company, the first dish that involved brining and roasting and basting, all those happy participles of full-time cooking engagement. Chicken breasts and filet of salmon, tortellini, and quick-fix curries—all the poky young-couple dishes had been my previous mainstays, but that was like dangling your feet in the wading pool. Thanksgiving was my first dive into the demands of making a real dinner, a feast with a small halo of grace but mostly harried action. In 1987, we invented a Thanksgiving for a collection of strays in New York—dear friends without homes nearby to go to—and it had become the best time of the year. We wanted to go on with the tradition while in Paris.
Oh, and a terrible admission, in its way: My wife loves roast turkey. Really loves it, more than any other meal—roast turkey with bread stuffing, candied carrots, Brussels sprouts, and mashed sweet potatoes, what Portnoy's mother might have called the whole megillah. Calvin Trillin's rueful joke about preferring something with a little more garlic—say, spaghetti carbonara—was lost on her. She truly loves the meal—it is part of the Canadian girl in her. (This is the way life is; the minx you seduced in her parents' basement turns out to be an enforcer of Canadian recipes.) The first effort we made in Paris to have a Thanksgiving feast was to go to Allard, the old bistro on the Rue St-André-des-Arts, where we had pheasant with bacon-and-chestnut stuffing. It was good but not really Thanksgivingish, so our next move was to buy a real, full French turkey. It came complete with an explanation of its origins and was absolutely delicious. The carrots I made alongside it, too, had a crisp, orange tang, and weren't mushy nor bland. It was a good dinner.
What we couldn't do was get our French friends to quite see the point of the holiday, despite their patient, amused attendance. A harvest holiday? Not exactly; post-harvest really. I didn't even want to raise the issue of the Pilgrims and Indians, since, once told, it is so clearly and chillingly a tale of a bigger swindle on the way—just sit down with us! Let's share the table and the country! What was it that made it matter so much, absent friends and absent dishes aside? And why was it so absent not just as a holiday but also as a concept in our adopted country?
I've brooded on it now for years, and I think I have a piece of the answer. Holiday feasts, it seems to anthropologists—or me pretending to be one—come in two kinds: There are reversal feasts, and there are renewal feasts. (Anthropologists sometimes refer to "easy" and "uneasy" festivals to catch this distinction.) We either celebrate the world turned upside down, the reversal of our normal expectations, or we celebrate the renewal of our regular order. Halloween is the perfect example of a reversal feast: The things you are never allowed to do over the course of a year—kids going door to door, ringing doorbells, demanding treats, wearing masks—are not only allowed for one night but encouraged. The Fourth of July (or the Second of July in Canada) is the perfect example of a renewal feast. The point of these renewal feasts is to remind us of why the organization and structure of our society are the way they are—not only how they came into being but why they are revered and allowed, why they are right. New Year's Eve is a reversal feast—license to get drunk—while Christmas is a bit of both: a reversal of the usual ritual (i.e., kids first) and a renewal of family bonds (we try and try and try to love our relatives).


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A Wikibookian suggests that JavaScript/Functions and Objects 2 be merged into this book or chapter. Discuss whether or not this merger should happen on the discussion page. |
A Wikibookian suggests that JavaScript/Object Oriented Programming be merged into this book or chapter. Discuss whether or not this merger should happen on the discussion page. |
A function is an action to take to complete a goal, objective, or task. Functions allow you to split a complex goal into simpler tasks, which make managing and maintaining scripts easier. A parameter or argument is data which is passed to a function to effect the action to be taken. Functions can be passed zero or more arguments. A function is executed when a call to that function is made anywhere within the script, the page, an external page, or by an event. Functions are always guaranteed to return some value when executed. The data passed to a function when executed is known as the function's input and the value returned from an executed function is known as the function's output.
Functions can be constructed in three main ways. We begin with three "Hello, World!" examples:
Way 1 | Way 2 | Way 3 |
function hello() { alert("Hello, World!"); } |
var hello = function() { alert("Hello, World!"); }; |
var hello = new Function( 'alert("Hello, World!");' ); |
Each function:
- can be called with
- does not expect any arguments
- performs an action to alert the user with a message
is returned when execution is finished
The hello function can be changed to allow you to say hello to someone specific through the use of arguments:
Way 1 | Way 2 | Way 3 |
function hello(who) { alert("Hello, " + who + "!"); } |
var hello = function(who) { alert("Hello, " + who + "!"); }; |
var hello = new Function('who', 'alert("Hello, " + who + "!");' ); |
Each function:
- can be called with hello
- expects one argument to be passed
- performs an action to alert the user with a message
is returned when execution is finished
Each function can be called in several ways:
Way 1 | Way 2 | Way 3 |
hello("you"); |
hello.call(window, "you"); |
hello.apply(window, ["you"]); |
Let's put this together on a sample web page. Call the function once when the page is loaded. Call the function again whenever a button is clicked.
<html> <head><title>Some Page</title></head> <body> <button id="msg">greeting</button> <script type="text/javascript">
function hello() { alert("Hello World!"); } document.getElementById("msg").onclick = hello; hello();
</script> </body> </html>
Functions with argumentsEdit
Let's start with a quick example, then we will break it down.
function stepToFive(number) { if (number > 5) { number -= 1; } if (number < 5) { number += 1; } return number; }
This program takes a number as an argument. If the number is larger than 5, it subtracts one. If it's smaller than five it adds one. Let's get down and dirty and look at this piece by piece.
function stepToFive(number) {
This is similar to what we've seen before. We now have number
following the function name. This is where we define our arguments for later use, which is similar to defining variables, except in this case the variables are only valid inside of the function.
if (number > 5) {
If statements. If the condition is true, execute the code inside the curly brackets.
number -= 1;
Assuming that JavaScript is your first language, you might not know what this means. This takes one off from the variable number
. You can think of it as a useful shorthand for number = number - 1;
number += 1;
This is similar to the last one, except that it adds one instead of subtracting it.
return number;
This returns the value of number from the function. This will be covered in more depth later on.
Here is an example of using this in a page.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html lang="en"> <head> <title>Some Page</title> <script type="text/javascript">
function stepToFive(number) { if (number > 5) { number -= 1; } if (number < 5) { number += 1; } return number; }
</script> </head> <body> <p> <script type="text/javascript">
var num = stepToFive(6); alert(num);
</script> </p> </body> </html>
There are a few more things to cover here.
var num = stepToFive(6);
This is where the return statement in the function comes in handy. num
here gets assigned the number 5, since that is what stepToFive will return when it's given an argument of 6.
An object is a structure of variables and some functions used to work with those variables. These include private variables, which should only be referenced or changed using the methods it provides. For example if a Date
object's getFullYear()
method returns an incorrect value, you can depend on the fact that somewhere in your script, the setFullYear()
method has been used to alter it.
The philosophy of object-oriented programming says that program code should be as modular as possible. Once you've written and tested a function, it should be possible to slot it into any program or script needing that kind of functionality and just expect it to work, because it's already been tried and tested on an earlier project.
The benefits of this approach are a shorter development time and easier debugging, because you're re-using program code that has already been proven. This 'black box' approach means that data goes into the Object and other data comes out of the Object, but what goes on inside it isn't something you need to concern yourself with.
An Object is a code structure that has its own private variables, and stores data that is isolated from outside interference. Only the Object itself can alter this data. The user works with the data through a set of public functions (called Methods) for accessing these private variables. It's probably most convenient to consider that an Object has its own set of functions that allows you to work with it in certain ways.
While JavaScript allows the creation of objects, you will discover that access protection is not directly available in JavaScript; as such, it is possible to bypass the intent the object-oriented programming by directly accessing fields or methods. To minimize the impact of these issues, you may want to ensure that methods are properly described and cover known situations of use - and to avoid directly accessing methods or fields that are designed to hold the internal state of the object.
Javascript provides a set of predefined Objects. For example: an HTML document is itself (represented as) an Object, with internal variables like 'title' and 'URL'.
The Date ObjectEdit
Let's look at the Date
Object. You can create a new object and assign it to a variable name using the new keyword:
var mydate = new Date();
The Date Object has a set of internal variables which hold the time, day, month, and year. It allows you to refer to it like a string, so you could for example pop-up the time that the variable was created. A pair of lines like this:
var myDate = new Date(); alert(myDate);
would display an alert box showing the current time and date, in universal time, like this:
Tue Jul 26 13:27:33 UTC+1200 2007 |
Even though it produced a string, the variable myDate is not actually one itself. An operator called typeof returns a string that indicates what type the variable is. These types are:
- boolean
- function
- number
- object
- string
- undefined
So the following code:
var myDate = new Date(); alert(typeof myDate);
would produce:
object |
The Date Object stores a lot of information about the date, which are accessed using a certain predefined method. Some examples of these methods are:
- getFullYear()
- getMonth()
- getDate()
- getDay()
- getHours()
- getMinutes()
- getSeconds()
The following code shows the year and what type of object that information is.
var myDate = new Date(); var year = myDate.getFullYear(); alert(year + '\n' + typeof(year));
2015 |
Because information such as the year is private to the object, the only way we have to alter that information is to use a method provided by the Object for that purpose.
The above methods to get information from the Date object have matching methods that allow you to set them too.
- setFullYear()
- setMonth()
- setDate()
- setDay()
- setHours()
- setMinutes()
- setSeconds()
The following code will show one year, followed by a different year.
var myDate = new Date(); alert(myDate.getFullYear()); myDate.setFullYear(2008); alert(myDate.getFullYear());
2015 |
2008 |
Defining New ObjectsEdit
var site = {}; site.test = function (string) { alert("Hello World! " + string); site.string = string; } site.test("Boo!"); alert(site.string);
What this example does is:
- Define site as an empty object
- Add a method called test to the site object
- Call the test method with variable "Boo!"
The result is:
- An alert message with "Hello World! Boo!"
- site.string being defined as string
- An alert message with "Boo!".
this keywordEdit
The this
keyword allows a method to read and write the property variables of that instance of the object.
The following example uses an initial capital letter for PopMachine()
to help indicate that the object needs to be created with the new
keyword. You can use the new
keyword with any function to create an object, but it will be much easier to keep track of what you're doing if you only use new
with functions that are meant just for the purpose, and mark those functions by naming them with an initial capital letter.
function PopMachine() { this.quarters = 0; this.dollars = 0; this.totalValue = function () { var sum = this.quarters * 25 + this.dollars * 100; return sum; } this.addQuarters = function (increment) { this.quarters += increment; } this.addDollars = function (increment) { this.dollars += increment; } } function testPopMachine() { var popMachine = new PopMachine(); popMachine.addQuarters(8); popMachine.addDollars(1); popMachine.addQuarters(-1); alert("Total in the cash register is: " + popMachine.totalValue()); } testPopMachine();
In Javascript, errors are created by the Error object and its subclasses. To catch the error to prevent it from stopping your script, you need to enclose sections of your code with the try...catch block.
Errors have two important fields: Error.name - which is the name of the error, and Error.message - a human readable description of the error.
While you can throw any object you want as an exception, it's strongly recommended to throw an instance of the Error object.
Further readingEdit
- "Javascript in Ten Minutes" quickly describes object-oriented JavaScript.


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Southern strategy
In American politics, the Southern strategy refers to a Republican Party strategy of gaining political support for certain candidates in the Southern United States by appealing to racism against African Americans.[1][2][3][4][5]
Though the "Solid South" had been a longtime Democratic Party stronghold due to the Democratic Party's defense of slavery before the American Civil War and segregation for a century thereafter, many white Southern Democrats stopped supporting the party following the civil rights plank of the Democratic campaign in 1948 (triggering the Dixiecrats), the African-American Civil Rights Movement, the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965, and desegregation.
The strategy was first adopted under future Republican President Richard Nixon and Republican Senator Barry Goldwater[6][7] in the late 1960s.[8] The strategy was successful in winning the five formerly Confederate states of the Deep South (Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina.[9][10]) for Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential election, but he won in only one other state, Arizona, his home state. The Southern Strategy also yielded five formerly Confederate states (Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee) in Richard Nixon's successful 1968 campaign for the presidency. It contributed to the electoral realignment of some Southern states to the Republican Party, but at the expense of losing more than 90 percent of black voters to the Democratic Party. As the twentieth century came to a close, the Republican Party began attempting to appeal to black voters again, though with little success.[8]
In 2005, Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman formally apologized to the NAACP for ignoring the black vote and exploiting racial conflicts.[11][12]
Although the phrase "Southern strategy" is often attributed to Nixon's political strategist Kevin Phillips, he did not originate it,[13] but merely popularized it.[14] In an interview included in a 1970 New York Times article, he touched on its essence:
- From now on, the Republicans are never going to get more than 10 to 20 percent of the Negro vote and they don't need any more than that...but Republicans would be shortsighted if they weakened enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans. That's where the votes are. Without that prodding from the blacks, the whites will backslide into their old comfortable arrangement with the local Democrats.[2]
While Phillips sought to polarize ethnic voting in general, and not just to win the white South, the South was by far the biggest prize yielded by his approach. Its success began at the presidential level, gradually trickling down to statewide offices, the Senate, and the House, as some legacy segregationist Democrats retired or switched to the GOP. In addition, the Republican Party worked for years to develop grassroots political organizations across the South, supporting candidates for local school boards and offices, as one example. But, following the Watergate scandal, there was broad support for the Southern Democrat Jimmy Carter in the 1976 election.
From 1948 to 1984 the Southern states, traditionally a stronghold for the Democrats, became key swing states, providing the popular vote margins in the 1960, 1968 and 1976 elections. During this era, several Republican candidates expressed support for states' rights, which some critics claim was a "codeword" of opposition to federal enforcement of civil rights for blacks and intervention on their behalf, including passage of legislation to protect the franchise.[4]
19th century disfranchisement and rise of the Solid South[edit]
After the American Civil War, southern states gained additional seats in the House of Representatives and representation in the Electoral College because freed slaves were granted full citizenship and suffrage. Southern white resentment stemming from the Civil War and the Republican Party's policy of Reconstruction kept most southern whites in the Democratic Party, but the Republicans could compete in the South with a coalition of freedmen, Unionists and highland whites.
Rising intimidation and violence by white paramilitary groups such as the White League and Red Shirts who supported the Democratic Party during the mid to late-1870s contributed to the turning out Republican officeholders and suppression of the black vote.[15] After the North agreed to withdraw federal troops under the Compromise of 1877, white Democrats used a variety of tactics to reduce voting by African Americans and poor whites.[16] In the 1880s they began to pass legislation making election processes more complicated. Although the Fourteenth Amendment reduced the Congressional representation of states that denied votes to their adult male citizens, this provision was never enforced.
From 1890 to 1908, the white Democratic legislatures in every Southern state enacted new constitutions or amendments with provisions to disenfranchise most blacks[17] and tens of thousands of poor whites. Provisions required complicated processes for poll taxes, residency, literacy tests, and other requirements which were subjectively applied against blacks. As blacks lost their vote, the Republican Party lost its ability to effectively compete.[18] There was a dramatic drop in voter turnout as these measures took effect, a drop in participation that continued across the South.[19]
The South became solidly white Democratic until past the middle of the 20th century. Effectively, Southern white Democrats controlled all the votes of the expanded population by which Congressional apportionment was figured. Many of their representatives achieved powerful positions of seniority in Congress, giving them control of chairmanships of Congressional committees. Because African Americans could not be voters, they were prevented from being jurors and serving in local offices. Services and institutions for them in the segregated South were chronically underfunded.[20]
During this period, Republicans held only a few House seats from the South. Between 1880 and 1904, Republican presidential candidates in the South received between 35 and 40 percent of that section's vote (except in 1892, when the 16 percent for the Populists knocked Republicans down to 25 percent). From 1904 to 1948, Republicans received more than 30 percent of the section's votes only in the 1920 (35.2 percent, carrying Tennessee) and 1928 elections (47.7 percent, carrying five states). The only important political role of the South in presidential elections came in the 1912 election, when it provided the delegates to select Taft over Theodore Roosevelt in that year's Republican convention.
Scholar Richard Valelly credits Woodrow Wilson's election to the disfranchisement of blacks in the South, as well as far-reaching effects in Congress, where the Democratic South gained "about 25 extra seats in Congress for each decade between 1903 and 1953."[21]
During this period, Republicans regularly supported anti-lynching bills, which were filibustered by Southern Democrats in the Senate, and appointed a few blacks to office. In the 1928 election, the Republican candidate Herbert Hoover rode the issues of prohibition and anti-Catholicism[22] to carry five former Confederate states, with 62 of the 126 electoral votes of the section. After his victory, Hoover attempted to build up the Republican Party of the South, transferring patronage away from blacks and toward the same kind of white Protestant businessmen who made up the core of the Northern Republican Party. With the onset of the Great Depression, which severely impacted the South, Hoover soon became extremely unpopular. The gains of the Republican Party in the South were lost. In the 1932 election, Hoover received only 18.1 percent of the Southern vote for re-election.
World War II and population changes[edit]
In the 1948 election, after Harry Truman signed an Executive Order to desegregate the Army, a group of Southern Democrats known as Dixiecrats split from the Democratic Party in reaction to the inclusion of a civil rights plank in the party's platform. This followed a floor fight led by Minneapolis mayor and (soon-to-be senator) Hubert Humphrey. The disaffected Democrats formed the States' Rights Democratic, or Dixiecrat Party, and nominated Governor Strom Thurmond of South Carolina for president. Thurmond carried four southern states in the general election: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina. The main plank of the States' Rights Democratic Party was maintaining segregation and Jim Crow in the South. The Dixiecrats, failing to deny the Democrats the presidency in 1948, soon dissolved, but the split lingered. In 1964, Thurmond was one of the first conservative southern Democrats to switch to the Republican Party.[citation needed]
In addition to the splits in the Democratic Party, the population movements associated with World War II had a significant effect on the makeup of the South. More than 5 million African Americans migrated from the South to the North and West in the second Great Migration lasting from 1940-1970. Starting before WWII, many took jobs in the defense industry in California and major industrial cities of the Midwest.[citation needed]
Changes in industry, growth in universities and the military establishment in turn attracted Northern transplants to the South, and bolstered the base of the Republican Party. In the post-war Presidential campaigns, Republicans did best in the fastest-growing states of the South with the most Northern settlers. In the 1952, 1956 and 1960 elections, Virginia, Tennessee and Florida went Republican, while Louisiana went Republican in 1956, and Texas twice voted for Dwight D. Eisenhower and once for John F. Kennedy. In 1956, Eisenhower received 48.9 percent of the Southern vote, becoming only the second Republican in history (after Ulysses S. Grant) to get a plurality of Southern votes.[citation needed]
The states of the Deep South remained loyal to the Democratic Party, which had not officially repudiated segregation. Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas and North Carolina actually lost congressional seats from the 1950s to the 1970s, while South Carolina, Louisiana and Georgia remained static.[citation needed]
The "Year of Birmingham" in 1963 highlighted racial issues in Alabama. Through the spring, there were marches and demonstrations to end legal segregation. The Movement's achievements in settlement with the local business class were overshadowed by bombings and murders by the Ku Klux Klan, most notoriously in the deaths of four girls in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.[23]
After the Democrat George Wallace was elected as Governor of Alabama, he helped link the concept of states' rights and segregation, both in speeches and by creating crises to provoke Federal intervention. He opposed integration at the University of Alabama, and collaborated with the Ku Klux Klan in disrupting court-ordered integration of public schools in Birmingham in 1963.[23]
Many of the states' rights Democrats were attracted to the 1964 presidential campaign of Republican Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona. Goldwater was notably more conservative than previous Republican nominees, such as Dwight D. Eisenhower. Goldwater's principal opponent in the primary election, Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York, was widely seen as representing the more moderate (and pro-Civil Rights Act) Northern wing of the party (see Rockefeller Republican, Goldwater republican).
In the 1964 presidential campaign, Goldwater ran a conservative campaign which broadly opposed strong action by the federal government. Although he had supported all previous federal civil rights legislation, Goldwater made the decision to oppose the Civil Rights Act of 1964.[24] His stance was based on his view that the act was an intrusion of the federal government into the affairs of states and, second, that the Act interfered with the rights of private persons to do business, or not, with whomever they chose, even if the choice is based on racial discrimination.
All this appealed to white Southern Democrats, and Goldwater was the first Republican to win the electoral votes of the Deep South states (Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and South Carolina) since Reconstruction. However, Goldwater's vote on the Civil Rights Act proved devastating to his campaign everywhere outside the South (other than the South, Goldwater only won in Arizona, his home state), contributing to his landslide defeat in 1964. A Lyndon B. Johnson ad called "Confessions of a Republican," which ran in the North, associated Goldwater with the Ku Klux Klan. At the same time, Johnson's campaign in the Deep South publicized Goldwater's support for pre-1964 civil rights legislation. In the end, Johnson swept the election.
Goldwater's position was at odds with most of the prominent members of the Republican Party, dominated by so-called Eastern Establishment and Midwestern Progressives. A higher percentage of the Republican Party supported the Civil Rights Act of 1964[24] than did the Democratic Party, as they had on all previous Civil Rights legislation. The Southern Democrats mostly opposed their Northern Party mates — and their presidents (Kennedy and Johnson) on civil rights issues.
In some Republican circles, the election after the 1964 Civil Rights Act was termed, "The Great Betrayal". Even though some Republicans paid a price with white voters — in some cases losing seats — black voters did not return to the Republican fold. Indeed, in some cases, notably the re-election of Senator Al Gore Sr., a majority of black voters cast their votes for a man who voted against the Civil Rights Act.
Roots of the Southern strategy[edit]
Lyndon Johnson was concerned that his endorsement of Civil Rights legislation would endanger his party in the South. In the 1968 election, Richard Nixon saw the cracks in the Solid South as an opportunity to tap into a group of voters who had historically been beyond the reach of the Republican Party. Much of this strategy was fairly obvious in retrospect given George Wallace's strong display in that election, where he garnered 46 electoral votes and nearly 10 million popular votes, attracting mostly southern Democrats away from Hubert Humphrey.[25] [26] [27]
Huey P. Newton, Shirley Chisholm, Andrew Young, and Senator Edward Brooke of Massachusetts had replaced Martin Luther King Jr. as some of the most prominent black leaders. By this point, King had won the Nobel Peace Prize and founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. His death was followed by rioting by African Americans in inner-city areas in major cities throughout the country. King's policy of non-violence had already been challenged by other African-American leaders such as John Lewis and Stokely Carmichael of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). The notion of Black Power advocated by SNCC leaders was quite effective in altering the mood of African-Americans. This attitude did much to raise the expectations of African Americans and also raised racial tensions.[28] Journalists reporting about the demonstrations against the Vietnam War often featured young people engaging in violence or burning draft cards and American flags.[29] There were also many young adults engaged in the drug culture and "free love" (sexual promiscuity), in what was called the "hippie" counter-culture. These actions scandalized many Americans and created a concern about law and order.
With the aid of Harry Dent and South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, who had switched parties in 1964, Richard Nixon ran his 1968 campaign on states' rights and "law and order." Progressives accused Nixon of pandering to Southern whites, especially with regard to his "states' rights" and "law and order" stands.[30] This tactic was later described by David Greenberg in Slate as "dog-whistle politics"[31] although this characterization has been disputed by Nixon advisors.[32]
The independent candidacy of George Wallace, former Democratic governor of Alabama, partially negated the Southern strategy.[33] With a much more explicit attack on integration and black civil rights, Wallace won all of Goldwater's states (except South Carolina), as well as Arkansas and one of North Carolina's electoral votes. Nixon picked up Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida, while Democratic nominee Hubert Humphrey's only southern state was Texas. Writer Jeffrey Hart who worked on the Nixon campaign as a speechwriter says that Nixon did not have a "Southern Strategy" but "Border State Strategy" as the campaign ceded the Deep South to George Wallace and that the press merely call it a "Southern Strategy" as they are "very lazy".[34]
In the 1972 election, by contrast, Nixon won every state in the Union except Massachusetts, winning more than 70 percent of the popular vote in most of the Deep South (Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina) and 61% of the national vote. He won over 65 percent of the votes in the other states of the former Confederacy. Nixon won 18% of the black vote nationwide. Despite his appeal to Southern whites, Nixon parlayed a wide perception as a moderate into wins in other states.
As civil rights grew more accepted throughout the nation, basing a general election strategy on appeals to "states' rights" that some would believe to be a play against civil rights laws would have resulted in a national backlash. In addition, the idea of "states' rights" was considered by some to be subsumed within a broader meaning than simply a reference to civil rights laws,[4][35] eventually encompassing federalism as the means to forestall Federal intervention in the culture wars.
In 1980, Republican candidate Ronald Reagan's proclaiming "I believe in states' rights" at his first Southern campaign stop was cited as evidence that the Republican Party was building upon the Southern strategy again.[5][36] Reagan launched his campaign at the Neshoba County Fair[37] near Philadelphia, Mississippi, the county where the three civil rights workers were murdered during 1964's Freedom Summer.[38][39][40]
In addition to presidential campaigns, Democratic charges of racism have been made about subsequent Republican campaigns for the House of Representatives and Senate in the South. The Willie Horton commercials used by supporters of George H. W. Bush against Michael Dukakis in the election of 1988 were considered by many Democrats, including Jesse Jackson, Lloyd Bentsen, and many newspaper editors, to be racist. The 1990 re-election campaign of Jesse Helms attacked his opponent's alleged support of "racial quotas," most notably through an ad in which a white person's hands are seen crumpling a letter indicating that he was denied a job because of the color of his skin.[41]
Bob Herbert, a New York Times columnist, reported a 1981 interview with Lee Atwater, published in Southern Politics in the 1990s by Alexander P. Lamis, in which Lee Atwater discussed politics in the South:
Questioner: But the fact is, isn't it, that Reagan does get to the Wallace voter and to the racist side of the Wallace voter by doing away with legal services, by cutting down on food stamps?
Atwater: You start out in 1954 by saying, "Nigger, nigger, nigger." By 1968 you can't say "nigger" — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "Nigger, nigger."[42]
Herbert wrote in the same column, "The truth is that there was very little that was subconscious about the G.O.P.'s relentless appeal to racist whites. Tired of losing elections, it saw an opportunity to renew itself by opening its arms wide to white voters who could never forgive the Democratic Party for its support of civil rights and voting rights for blacks."[1]
In later decades, some analysts made the argument that Southern whites' move to the Republican Party had more to do with economic interests than racism. In The End of Southern Exceptionalism, political scientists Richard Johnston and Byron Shafer argued that Republican dominance in the South was driven by increasing numbers of wealthy suburbanites.[43] Conversely, other scholarship has reaffirmed the role of racial factors: in 2005, Valentino and Sears reported that "the South's shift to the Republican party has been driven to a significant degree by racial conservatism".[44]
Some analysts viewed the 1990s as the apogee of Southernization or the Southern strategy, given that the Democratic president Bill Clinton and vice-president Al Gore were from the South, as were Congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle.[45] During the end of Nixon's presidency, the Senators representing the former Confederate states in the 93rd Congress were primarily Democrats. During the beginning of Bill Clinton's, 20 years later in the 103rd Congress, this was still the case.
Shift in strategy[edit]
While running for President, Clinton promised to "end welfare as we have come to know it" while in office.[46] In 1996, Clinton would fulfill his campaign promise and the longtime GOP goal of major welfare reform came into fruition. After two welfare reform bills sponsored the GOP-controlled Congress were successfully vetoed by the President,[47] a compromise was eventually reached and the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act was signed into law on August 22, 1996.[46] Around this time, the main focus the Southern Strategy had drifted away from race-related campaign issues and shifted towards cultural issues such as the preservation of religious conservatism in American society.
In the mid-1990s, the Republican Party made major attempts to court African-American voters, believing that the strength of religious values within the African-American community and the growing number of affluent and middle-class African Americans would lead this group to increasingly support Republican candidates.[48] An early example of this shift showed during the 1996 Presidential election, when Republican Presidential nominee Bob Dole chose Jack Kemp, a New York Congressman who long advocated for urban revitalization projects,[8] as his running mate[8] and General Colin Powell, an African American who gained national recognition for his role in Operation Desert Storm's success, announced he was a registered Republican.[8]
Though the Republican Party had managed to rekindle the interests of African-American voters,[48] the group still remained loyal to the Democratic Party.[48][8] During his time in office, Clinton connected greatly with the Africans Americans.[47] Born into a poor, Southern working-class family, Clinton's social-economic status growing up resembled that of many African-Americans. Since his youth, Clinton had befriended several African Americans and had managed to further exploit these friendships in public since his time as Governor of Arkansas.[47] In addition to his background,[47] Clinton's policies and decisions to appoint numerous African-Americans in his cabinet helped him cement his status among African Americans.[47] By the time he left office, polls showed that Clinton's popularity in the African American community surpassed that of Colin Powell and longtime African American civil rights activist Jesse Jackson and African American loyalty to the Democratic Party was further ensured.[47]
21st century[edit]
Few African Americans voted for George W. Bush and other Republicans in the 2004 elections, although it was a higher percentage than any GOP candidate since President Ronald Reagan.[citation needed] Following Bush's re-election, Ken Mehlman, Bush's campaign manager and Chairman of the RNC, held several large meetings with African-American business, community, and religious leaders. In his speeches, he apologized for his party's use of the Southern Strategy in the past. When asked about the strategy of using race as an issue to build GOP dominance in the once-Democratic South, Mehlman replied, "Republican candidates often have prospered by ignoring black voters and even by exploiting racial tensions," and, "by the '70s and into the '80s and '90s, the Democratic Party solidified its gains in the African-American community, and we Republicans did not effectively reach out. Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong."[49][50]
Recent comments on Southernization and Southern strategy[edit]
In 2005, Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman formally apologized to the NAACP for ignoring the black vote.[11] However, two days after his address to the NAACP he characterized this as a general strategy, not particularly Southern: "It always interests me when people say it was a Southern strategy. The fact is that folks in the North, the South, the East and the West sometimes did this." [51]
Some commentators considered the decisive victory of Democratic Senator Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election and subsequent re-election in 2012 to represent the lessened influence of Southernization in national politics:
- Wayne Parent, a political scientist at Louisiana State University, said that "The region's absence from Mr. Obama's winning formula means it's becoming distinctly less important,... The South has moved from being the center of the political universe to being an outside player in presidential politics."[45]
- Thomas Schaller, a political scientist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, stated that the Republicans had become "a Southernized party.... They have completely marginalized themselves to a mostly regional party," noting that he believed Southernization was over and that the South was no longer needed to win national elections.[45]
- Merle Black, an expert on the region's politics at Emory University in Atlanta, said the Republican Party went too far in appealing to the South, alienating voters elsewhere. 'They've maxed out on the South,' he said, which has 'limited their appeal in the rest of the country.'"[45]
See also[edit]
- Bible Belt
- Conservative Coalition
- Politics of the Southern United States
- Racism in the United States
- Solid South
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- ^ a b Boyd, James (May 17, 1970). "Nixon's Southern strategy: 'It's All in the Charts'" (PDF). The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-08-02.
- ^ Carter, Dan T. From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race in the Conservative Counterrevolution, 1963-1994.
- ^ a b c Branch, Taylor (1999). Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65. New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 242. ISBN 0-684-80819-6. OCLC 37909869.
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- ^ Black & Black, Earl & Merle (2003). Rise of the Southern Republicans. Harvard University Press. p. 442.
- ^ Kalk, Bruce H. (2001). "The Goldwater Effect, 1962-1966". The Origin of the Southern Strategy. Lanham, Md. [u.a.]: Lexington Books. p. 55. ISBN 978-0-7391-0242-8.
- ^ a b c d e f Apple, R.W. Jr. (September 19, 1996). "G.O.P. Tries Hard to Win Black Votes, but Recent History Works Against It". The New York Times. Archived from the original on January 22, 2012.
- ^ "Deep South". The Free Dictionary. Retrieved 2007-01-18.
- ^ "Deep South". Synonym.com. Retrieved 2007-01-18.
- ^ a b Rondy, John (July 15, 2005). "GOP ignored black vote, chairman says: RNC head apologizes at NAACP meeting". The Boston Globe. Reuters. Archived from the original on January 22, 2012.
- ^ Allen, Mike (July 14, 2005). "RNC Chief to Say It Was 'Wrong' to Exploit Racial Conflict for Votes". Washington Post. Retrieved October 14, 2013.
- ^ Javits, Jacob K. (October 27, 1963). "To Preserve the Two-Party System". The New York Times.
- ^ Phillips, Kevin (1969). The Emerging Republican Majority. New York: Arlington House. ISBN 0-87000-058-6. OCLC 18063.
- ^ George C. Rable, But There Was No Peace: The Role of Violence in the Politics of Reconstruction, Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1984, p. 132
- ^ Nicholas Lemann, Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War, New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, Paperback, 2007, pp.74-80
- ^ Zinn, Howard (1999). A People's History of the United States. New York: HarperCollins. pp. 205–210,449. ISBN 0-06-052842-7.
- ^ Perman, Michael (2001). "Introduction". Struggle for Mastery: Disfranchisement in the South, 1888-1908. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-2593-X. OCLC 44131788.
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- ^ "Beginnings of black education", The Civil Rights Movement in Virginia. Virginia Historical Society. Retrieved April 12, 2009.
- ^ Richard M. Valelly, The Two Reconstructions: The Struggle for Black Enfranchisement University of Chicago Press, 2009, pp. 146-147
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- ^ a b McWhorter, Diane (2001). Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-684-80747-5. OCLC 45376386.
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- ^ Risen, Clay (March 5, 2006). "How the South was won". (subscription required) The Boston Globe. Retrieved 2007-02-11
- ^ Thomas R. Dye, Louis Schubert, Harmon Zeigler. The Irony of Democracy: An Uncommon Introduction to American Politics. Cengage Learning. 2011
- ^ Ted Van Dyk. How the Election of 1968 Reshaped the Democratic Party -- Van Dyk's memoir, "Heroes, Hacks and Fools," recounts advising Democratic presidents and presidential candidates from the early 1960s to 1992.. Wall Street Journal. 2008
- ^ Zinn, Howard (1999) A People's History of the United States New York:HarperCollins, 457-461
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- ^ Johnson, Thomas A. (August 13, 1968). "Negro Leaders See Bias in Call Of Nixon for 'Law and Order'". The New York Times. p. 27. Retrieved 2008-08-02.(subscription required)
- ^ Greenberg, David (November 20, 2007). "Dog-Whistling Dixie: When Reagan said "states' rights," he was talking about race.". Slate. Archived from the original on January 22, 2012.
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- ^ Hart, Jeffrey (2006-02-09). The Making of the American Conservative Mind (television). Hanover, New Hampshire: C-SPAN.
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- ^ White, Jack (December 14, 2002). "Lott, Reagan and Republican Racism". Time. Archived from the original on January 22, 2012.
- ^ Kornacki, Steve (February 3, 2011). "The "Southern Strategy," fulfilled". Salon. Archived from the original on January 22, 2012.
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- ^ Helms' "Hands" campaign ad on YouTube
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Further reading[edit]
- Aistrup, Joseph A. The Southern Strategy Revisited: Republican Top-Down Advancement in the South, Kentucky Press
- Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, The New Press, New York, 2010 (ISBN 978-1-59558-103-7).
- Applebome, Peter. Dixie Rising: How the South is Shaping American Values, Politics, and Culture (ISBN 0-15-600550-6).
- Black, Earl; Black, Merle. The Rise of Southern Republicans, Harvard University Press
- Boyd, James. "Nixon's Southern strategy 'It's All In the Charts'", New York Times, May 17, 1970
- Buchanan, Patrick J. "The Neocons and Nixon's Southern Strategy", December 2002, Patrick Buchanan Official Website
- Carter, Dan T. From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race in the Conservative Counterrevolution, 1963-1994 (ISBN 0-8071-2366-8)
- Carter, Dan T. The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, The Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of Southern Politics (ISBN 0-8071-2597-0)
- Chappell, David L. A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow (ISBN 0-8078-2819-X)
- Egerton, John. "A Mind to Stay Here: Closing Conference Comments on Southern Exceptionalism", Southern Spaces, 29 November 2006.
- Kruse, Kevin M. White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism (ISBN 0-691-09260-5) by
- Phillips, Kevin. The Emerging Republican Majority (ISBN 0-87000-058-6)
- UPI, "Why The GOP's Southern Strategy Ended", 23 February 2001, at NewsMax


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TurkeyTuesday, January 6, 2015
Nestle Damak PistachioI found this curious little Nestle bar at Ralph's grocery store tucked in with the Christmas merchandise last month. I wasn't quite sure what it was, but I wanted to know more. So, I bought the Nestle Damak bar, without even knowing how much it was ($3.99, I find out). It's square, its made in Turkey. It's just milk chocolate with pistachios. I figured I've probably spent most of my life eating California pistachios, it's nice to find a bar that actually lists the sourcing of their pistachios ... would they taste different? The bar is similar to a Ritter Sport in shape and format. It's just shy of 3 ounces. The bar is wrapped in foil and that is wrapped in the paper label. Inside, it was glossy and quite fresh, divided into 15 pieces sporting the Nestle logo. The bar smells nice, sweet and milky but with a little grassy note which I'm guessing is the pistachios. There's no fake pistachio flavor to it. The ingredients are good, plenty of sugar, pistachios and cocoa butter (actually listed in that order). They use sunflower lecithin instead of soy lecithin. The milk chocolate is so different from normal Nestle milk chocolate, it's hard to believe it's the same company. The flavor is authentically dairy, rich and with a toasted note to it. The melt is exceptionally smooth. The pistachios are crisp and buttery, with a crunch that's almost like a macadamia nut but with a sort of green tea freshness to it. There's a hint of salt. Though sugar was listed first, it's not that sweet. I ate the whole bar, and I'd try the Turkish Nestle items again if the opportunity presented itself. I'd also seek out some Turkish pistachios too, they were exceptional. Related Candies
Thursday, November 6, 2014
Haribo Sour BearsHaribo makes the number one selling gummi bear in the United States, the Haribo Gold Bear. But Haribo makes a wide variety of other gummi candy, including sours. This year Haribo introduced the Haribo Sour Gold Bears which brings together their assortment of five flavors with a sour sand coating. This new product follows the trend where the sour version of an established candy gets a sour sanding. This has happened with Skittles, Sour Patch Kids (original candy was Swedish Fish) and Sour Punch Straws (Red Vines). I'm not sure why the sour can't just be in the candy, though I appreciate the texture change. Right now they're available in stores in the regular peg bags and in bulk, but I expect they'll come in other variety packages soon. I picked mine up at Cost Plus World Market, but I know that they're in pretty wide release. I'm a little irritated at the size of the bag. The bag is the same size it's always been, but it seems like there's less and less candy in them. This bag holds 4.5 ounces, but years ago it was 6 ounces. The back of the package helpfully lists all the flavors with their colors: pineapple, raspberry, strawberry, lemon and orange. Though some of the Haribo gummis use real fruit juice and natural colorings, these use a blend of natural and artificial flavors and artificial colors. Raspberry (red) - this is one of those bears that make me love Haribo. Their red is raspberry, not cherry. The flavor is more on the tart side of the berry flavors, more like an actual raspberry than a raspberry jam. There are seed notes, but less of the flowery perfume that the standard bear delivers. Orange is fun. The outside starts nicely tart, but not too puckery ... it's just enough to give my jaw a little tingle. The sour flavor continues with the gummi itself, though not every flavorful in its own right. It's missing a lot of the orange peel notes that are usually in a Haribo Bear, but this is still fun. Pineapple (pale) - this has always been my favorite flavor in Haribo bears, and this one is no different. The first touch to my tongue reveals that this is not ordinary sour sanding on the bears ... there's actual flavor. The pineapple is floral and tangy and zippy, more like fresh pineapple than the canned stuff. Lemon (yellow) - this is sharp but with a lot of zest and juice notes. It's not quite as sour as I'd hope a sour bear should be, but it still holds up well as the chew goes along. This one definitely showed that the centers are not just the same Haribo Bears with a sour coating, they're actually more sour on the inside. Strawberry (green) - yes, the package confirms that green is strawberry - it's not lime and it's not apple. This one is a little disappointing, the sour levels seem uneven and less on the berry spectrum and kind of veers off into watermelon. However, it goes well with all the other bears even if it's not as intensely flavored. I liked or loved every bear in this assortment. They're tried and true classics with a little bit more intensity than the standard Gold Bear. They're sour, but it took most of the bag over three days to finally burn a hole in my tongue. I'm sad that these didn't come out 30 years ago, but I'm glad they're here now. Related Candies
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Haribo Funny MixAs part of the new trend of morsel snacking (morselization), more candy makers are creating mixes of existing candy to capture consumers. The Haribo Funny Mix is a combination of existing candies into a new variety. I picked this up on London not really because of the mix idea, but because it was Halal, which means that the gelatin used is not porcine in origin. I've had Haribo's Kosher grapefruit slice gummis before and found they had a slightly different texture and was curious if there was any difference here. The package says it's made in Turkey, which is where most Haribo candies sold in the US are made. Haribo makes a range of Funny Mixes, which contain different mixes of sugar candy, including a version of jelly candies that are vegetarian. The mix consists of: There's nothing new in this mix that I haven't tried before, but the variety is well done. There's a good mix between the gummi items and the other novelty pieces like the berries and foam-bottomed frogs. Since most of them are mini sized, they tumble out of the bag well and would do well mixed in with other candies or eaten at the movies or while gaming. A quick review of each of the items: Mini Gummi Bears are great. They're firm but very flavorful and wonderfully consistent in their bouncy texture. There isn't a flavor I don't like in the standard mix, which is a huge plus when grabbing from a mix like this, I don't even have to look. Cola Bottles are great, they're a little spicy, lightly tart and just the right size for a single bite. The Blackberries & Raspberries are my least favorite item in the mix, in fact, I skipped them. Luckily they're easy to spot either visually or simply by touch if you're reaching into the bag. The candy beads are simply too sweet, they're crunchy but grainy and offer no flavor. The center doesn't pack much punch to mix in with the textural addition and the colorings also give it a weird flavor. Gummi Worms are not overly large and are pretty much like the Gummi Bears, except they're a little larger. The Mini Hearts have a white foam base. I only got one of these, and found it similar to the Frogs that Haribo has made very popular. I like the minis and in general, all the candies in the mix are great. I like having the mix of fruity flavors plus the cola ... but the berries are a bit of a dealbreaker. This is a very attractive mix, though, so if you're looking for something fun to put in a bowl for kids or folks coming over to watch a game, it's a good option since there's something for everyone (who likes gummis). Related Candies
POSTED BY Cybele AT 1:24 pm Candy • Review • Haribo • Cola • Gummi Candy • 7-Worth It • Turkey • Comments (0) Friday, September 6, 2013
Haribo The Smurfs GummiI couple of years ago I found out that Haribo had a Smurfs candy, but it wasn't sold widely in the United States. I did track them down when I was in Germany, and bought a single one, for half a Euro at a Christmas Market in Schmalkalden (here's a photo of me buying it). The individual pieces were large, about half an ounce (see photo) and a generic berry flavored jelly candy. Now that the second Smurfs movie has been released worldwide (and a third planned since the first one has already made a quarter of a billion dollars worldwide) Haribo did decide to release a version to the United States in pouch packaging. I picked this bag up at Cost Plus World Market about a month after the movie came out. This version has smaller candies in the traditional gelatin-based gummi style. The bag a little more expensive than usual Haribo candies at Cost Plus - not the sticker price, but the fact that the bag holds 4 ounces instead of the usual 5 ounces for products like the Gold Bears or Happy Cola. The candies are shaped like the Smurfs. They're predominantly blue with different colors on top. Most are clear on top, to emulate the standard white Smurf Phrygian cap. Papa Smurf has a red hat and Smurfette has blonde (yellow) hair. The pieces are big, about an inch and half tall. The blue flavor of the Smurf body is berry. I'd say it might be raspberry and it might be strawberry, it's hard to tell. It's jammy and it's tart and overall, has a good flavor. The colored head coverings are a different flavor though. Smurfette's hair is lemon. It's mild and pleasant, not as intense as the Haribo Gold Bears, but still goes well with the berry blue body. The standard clear headed Smurf is pineapple, which I love and think goes great with the berry. Papa Smurf's red hat is, well, hard to distinguish. If I had to say, maybe it's raspberry and the body is strawberry ... maybe they're the same. The candies are well done, a little monotonous because of the mostly single flavor but the molding and different shapes are pretty good. If you're keen on Swedish Fish, this might be a fun treat, though they are a gummi, not a jelly candy so they're not for vegetarians. They're flat, not dimensional like the Au'some 3 Dees candies that have also come out with licensing agreements with characters from Nintendo, Monopoly and Kung Fu Panda. Maybe the time has passed when I would have been interested in a Smurf themed candy, but for someone who really likes them, and you're planning on screening the movie, it'd be a fun themed snack. Related Candies
POSTED BY Cybele AT 11:59 am Candy • Review • Haribo • Gummi Candy • 7-Worth It • Turkey • Cost Plus • Comments (1) Monday, May 13, 2013
Haribo Juicy Gold BearsWhen I was in Germany a couple of years ago, I picked up a bag of a new Haribo variety of gummi bears called Saft Baeren. They were made with real fruit juice and had a much softer, juicier texture than the traditional Haribo Gold Bears. Well, Haribo has decided to sell a version of those bears in the United States as Haribo Juicy Gold-Bears. They're coming out now and feature more than 20% fruit juice and no artificial colors. They're a little different from the bears that I tried. First, the version I tried was made in Germany, and as I found out from my taste test, the German Haribo products are usually the ones I prefer because they're more intense and have a better texture. This bag was made in Turkey. Second, the flavor variety is a little different. The original version had five flavors, this one has six. The flavors are black currant, pear, lime, apple, raspberry and peach. No orange, lemon, pineapple or strawberry. Black Currant (Purple) is deep and jammy, slightly bitter, in an authentic way with a dry note to it. Apple (dull green) is very, well, green tasting. It's an authentic apple flavor, like juice, but it's also very green, like someone threw a dash of wheatgrass in there or something. Peach (orange) is fascinating. It's more apricot if you ask me, and that's probably a good thing. It's quite tangy and has a lot of that balsam note that gives peach their fuzzy flavor. It's a dense and nuanced flavor, done very well, far better than any other peach candy I've had. Raspberry (red) is a great bear. It's tart and juicy and has a light tannic quality that's kind of jammy and lightly floral. Pear (clear) is tangy and a little bland compared to the others. It's like a baked pear. Lime (yellow) is actually pretty boring. It's not as vibrant as the citrus flavors in the original Gold bears. Overall, the flavors are good, even great, but the actual flavor variety is a little weird. I'm all for not using mainstream flavors, but this mix is just a little too strange for me. There were only two that I liked, and I found myself picking them out of the mix, which is something I never do with the standard Gold Bears. I think the fact that they're using natural colors and lots of real juice is great and I hope that trend continues ... now if they could just do an all citrus mix of bears that way. However, I know that these flavors, since they're so specific and so rare in a mix sold in the US, are going to be someone's favorite. Related Candies
POSTED BY Cybele AT 10:26 am All Natural • Candy • Review • Haribo • Gummi Candy • 7-Worth It • Turkey • Comments (0) Friday, March 30, 2012
Haribo Gold Bears from Turkey and GermanyHaribo Gold Bears stand as the epitome of the gummi bear for good reason. They were the first and they are known around the world. Haribo is so big that they have 18 factories, but only five of them in Germany. I've been told over the years that the German Haribo products are the best. The Haribo products we most often see here in the United States, especially the Gold Bears, are made in either Turkey or Spain. So while I was in Germany I made sure to pick up a bag of the original version made in Bonn, Germany. Flipping over the bag, it was immediately clear that they're different. There's an extra flavor. The German Gold Bears have six flavors: The Turkish or Spanish Gold Bears have only five flavors: Further, the German Bears are made with all natural colorings. Here's an array of Bears and Bunnies for color comparison: On top are the German Gold Bunnies, packaged for the American market, in the middle are the German Gold Bears purchased in Germany and on the bottom are the Turkish Gold Bears purchased in the United States. So let's start where things are weird. First, the Green Gummi Bear. As you may have noticed in the listing above, in the United States, the green gummi bear is Strawberry. I compared the colors of the Green Gummi Gold Bears because they show the most difference between the countries. The German bear is a light olive color, not a true green. Other than that though, the bears are the same shape and mass. I thought maybe one was taller than the other, or thicker, but the variations are just that, variations across all the bears. Some are slightly thicker or taller, some have different facial expressions. But there's no real difference in the moulding. Turkish Strawberry (Green) compared to German Strawberry (Pink): The Turkish bear is just slightly firmer. The flavor (once you close your eyes and forget that it's not lime or green apple) is light and only slightly floral. It's tangy, but not puckeringly tart. Mostly it's a bland gummi bear. The German bear is softer and just slightly more pliable. It's jammy and has a good blend of florals and tartness, and though it's slightly more flavorful, I wouldn't say that there's a huge difference in the intensity, just the nuances. Germany Wins. Turkish Raspberry (Red) compared to German Raspberry (Red): The artificial nature of the Turkish bear is much more apparent when placed next to the deeper, wine red German bear. The Turkish bear is sweet and tangy, the berry flavors are fresh and have only the lightest note of seeds to them. The German bear is softer and has richer, more dense flavor with more boiled fruit flavors to it. Germany Wins. Turkish Orange compared to German Orange: this is tough. Both looked virtually the same, and the textures were also so similar. The zesty and tart notes on both were dead on. The German bear tasted every so slightly more like freshly squeezed juice, but that could have been my imagination. Tie. Turkish Pineapple (clear) compared to German Pineapple (clear): The Turkish version had an ever—so-slight yellow cast to it, which really only showed when I placed the bears next to each other on white paper. Pineapple happens to be my favorite flavor for the bears and this was no exception. The Turkish bear actually had enough tartness to make my jaw tingle. It's sweet and floral and just wonderful. The German version was just as good, but had an extra little flavor towards the end, a more intense thing that I can't quite peg as pineapple zest, but that sort of buzz that comes with fresh pineapple. Even though there was a slight difference, I will indiscriminately gobble both. Tie. Turkish Lemon (yellow) compared to German Lemon (yellow): Lemon is a great flavor and Haribo really can't fail. There's a wonderful blend of zest and juice in the Turkish version, with so much lemon peel that it verges on air freshener. The German version is more like a candied lemon peel or marmalade, slight more bitterness but still plenty of juice. Turkish Win. The last one is the German Apple. It tastes, well, like tart apple juice. Honestly, I'm glad it's not in the bags that are sold in the United States, it would be one I'd pick around ... and there currently aren't any Haribo Gold Bears that I don't like. So if there's an additional flavor in Germany, I thought maybe this Easter Haribo Gold Bunnies version which features little rabbits instead bears and says it's made in Germany would have that apple in it. It does not. The Green Bunny is actually strawberry. But what's more disappointing about these Haribo Gold Bunnies is that they're terrible compared to both the Turkish Bears and the German Bears. Sure, the shape is cute and the colors are all natural, but the flavors are pale and watered down. So if you're a Green Apple fan, it's worth it to seek out the true German Haribo Gold Bears. If you don't care, then the Turkish version that we've been served all these years is great ... it's not quite as intense, but it's still a good quality product. The other think I noticed is that I paid one Euro (about $1.30) for my 200 gram (7 ounce) bag of German bears ... and I paid $1.50 for my Turkish bears, which only has 5 ounces in it. The German Bunnies were on sale for $1.00 at Cost Plus. Related CandiesWednesday, May 25, 2011
Bebeto Jelly Gums: Berry, Turkish Coffee & TropicalSince I'm on the topic of classic candies this week (starting with Orange Slices) another favorite are what are simply called the Raspberry. They're a simple construction that mimics the actual berry quite nicely: it's a gummi center covered with crunchy colored nonpareils in the approximate size and shape of a real raspberry. Quite a few companies make them, Haribo's are probably the most famous, but there's also a great version made here in the United States by Jelly Belly (they also come in a white grape version called Champagne Bubbles). Today's new item is Bebeto Premium, a line of crunchy coated gummis made in Turkey by a company called Kervan. They're being introduced to the American market at the Sweets & Snacks Expo in Chicago this week. I picked up a few samples in Cologne at the ISM candy fair there in February, and now that I know that they may be available here, I thought I'd review them. The product line boasts all natural flavorings and colorings. They're packaged in stand up bags with zip lock tops for freshness and each variety comes with two flavors in the mix. I got to try three of their new varieties: Tropical, Berry & Turkish Coffee Tropical: The crunchy bits outside are sweet and have a very light fruity flavor. It isn't until I got to the gummi center that the flavor really developed. The Tropical Ananas (Pineapple) was intense, a good blend of tartness and those pine and rosemary notes that fresh pineapples have. It was more like the fresh flavors than the canned ones. The Tropical Orange was a little more subdued, but with a good dose of zest in there to carry off a fully developed fruit flavor. The ones were rather like I expected. Blackberry starts very sweet with the light, crunchy nonpareils but then gets a good fruit jam kick from the gummi center. The flavor notes were dark enough to be considered blackberry. The Raspberry was more fragrant and floral than the Blackberry and of this pairing, it was definitely my favorite. Happily I also experience no flavor interference from the colorings. The Turkish Coffee & Mint variety was the one I was looking forward to the most. I know that coffee or anything creamy sounds like an odd match for a gummi base, but I've had some wonderful Japanese versions, so I know it can be done well. As this is an actual Turkish candy from a Turkish candy company, I expected a lot from their Turkish Coffee. The package was a mix of brown and white candies, the brown ones were the coffee (obviously) and white was mint. The Turkish Coffee pieces smelled wonderful, like strongly sweetened, fresh coffee. The coffee flavor, in this piece, was much more apparent on the outside with the little crunchies. So far, so good. I was enjoying it and looking forward to the more intense coffee center. But that didn't happen. The center was tangy. Generically tangy, but still with a coffee note to it. It's like someone tossed a spoonful of lemon juice in my coffee. I thought for a while it was an error, that the little packet I had was a mistake, that they were changing over a production line. But every packet I had (I think I had four or five of these little samples that had three or four pieces each in them that I gathered from several different places - both the press room and the booth for Bebeto) was the same. Mint was similar. The white crunchies were a strong peppermint with just a hint of spearmint. But the center was tangy. I didn't mind that as much, I thought of it kind of like a less than zesty mojito. I love that there are no artificial colorings in these candies. The flavors chosen for this line are great with the exception of the Turkish Coffee. I though the fruit flavors went well together in their pairings. However, the Turkish Coffee was just too weird, when I want a coffee flavored candy, I don't want too much extra with it. Tartness definitely not a bonus. They're a little more adult in their packaging and flavor combos, but this can easily be a family candy. I don't know the recommended retail prices on these, but if they're comparable to Haribo, they could fit well in the American market. The crunchy coating means they don't stick together and would look great in a candy dish. I give the fruits a 7 out of 10 but Turkish Coffee gets a 5 out of 10 and should go back to the drawing board.
POSTED BY Cybele AT 12:09 pm Candy • Review • Coffee • Gummi Candy • Mints • 5-Pleasant • 7-Worth It • Turkey • Comments (4) Thursday, March 10, 2011
Tayas Damla - Filled Fruit ChewsDamla is a chewy candy made by Tayas in Turkey. They're known throughout the Middle East and Europe and are even seen in ethnic stores here in the States from time to time. Damla comes in a wide variety of flavors, including the most common fruits, which I tried: Raspberry, Strawberry, Orange and Grape. They come in single flavor packages and mixes. Each piece is individually wrapped with an inner wax wrap and an outer twist wrapper that features a picture of the fruit and color coding. Inside all the pieces are white, there are no colorings added to the candy. I got my sample bags directly from Tayas at their exhibit at ISM Cologne last month. The chew is smooth and soft, similar to Starburst but a little more like HiCHEW from Japan. They're not quite bouncy but have a great texture that doesn't become grainy like some true taffy does. (This has gelatin in it, which I think is what keeps it so well emulsified.) The feature that sets them apart from those two though is the jammy filling. Raspberry - I opened this package first and shared it around. These were fantastic, creamy and light with a decent berry flavor. The "sauce" center didn't really do much except keep the candy moist, the taffy outside was more than flavorful enough. Strawberry - sweet, floral and lightly tangy with a faint creamy note towards the end like cheesecake. Cherry - this one came in a purple package and at first I thought it was blackcurrant. This is not the standard American black cherry or wild cherry flavor. This is something akin to actual cherry. It's woodsy and a little bit tannic. It's strange and something that I actually liked. Orange - I was expecting great things from this but the orange ended up being very ordinary. Not that this is a bad thing, it was a lot like a softer Starburst - intense and fruity with mostly juice notes and a light creamsicle finish. I enjoyed these, especially since the flavors seemed so clear and distinct and they didn't feel the need to use artificial colors on them. I like getting single flavor packages because I usually don't like every flavor in a mix as well. These are unique enough that I can see them making great inroads in North America just as HiCHEW has. Here's another review from Candy Addict. I couldn't figure out if these were Halal or not, but they do seem to contain gelatin so they're not for vegetarians. The printing on the back was so tiny, I can't tell you anything else except that they can do some tiny printing in Turkey. Related Candies
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I think one of the reasons everyone went wild over Casey Musgraves' "Same Trailer Different Park" (2013) was that it felt like real country music is supposed to feel, but rarely does these days -- down home with a pinch of attitude, just enough twang, and mercifully bereft of cheese. They just don't make 'em like that anymore. Or do they?
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