Archie Bunker Gives Voice To The Silent Majortiy [Some Sunday Context]
This Day (An America 250 History Show)
Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
This past week we discussed the spring of 1970, when the massacre at Kent State and the Hardhat Riots in NYC showed how the "silent majority" was ascendent in Nixon's America. Today, a conversation about the cultural force that most represented that: Archie Bunker on All In The Family.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, Jody Abergan here. Welcome to our Some Sunday Context series, where we bring you |
| 0:09.0 | conversations new and from the archives that try and give you a little context for what we |
| 0:13.5 | are up to here in 26. Now, this past week, we ran a two-parter about the not-so silent, |
| 0:19.1 | silent majority that emerged in the early 1970s, |
| 0:22.8 | the backlash to Kent State, the hard hat riots. |
| 0:26.2 | And today, an episode we recorded last year about perhaps the biggest cultural force in |
| 0:30.6 | that strain of American politics, the TV show, all in the family. |
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| 1:12.4 | Okay, we'll be right back after the break with Archie Bunker. |
| 1:32.2 | Hello and welcome to This Day, a history show from Radiotopia. |
| 1:34.2 | My name is Jody Avergan. |
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