As Goes Burlington So Goes France
Title
As Goes Burlington So Goes France
Subject
Electoral Politics
Description
Drawing from a Doonesbury comic by Gary Trudeau, this button includes the phrase, “As goes Burlington, so goes France” as a parody of the U.S political saying dating from the nineteenth-century, “As Maine goes, so goes the nation.” As a member of the Liberty Union Party, Bernie Sanders’ successful 1981 mayoral election in Burlington, Vermont, represented the state’s liberal-left position, in contrast with the emergence of the New Right at the same time.
Creator
unknown
Source
Roz Payne
Publisher
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Date
1981
Format
Button
Type
Physical Object
Collection
Citation
unknown, “As Goes Burlington So Goes France ,” Roz Payne Sixties Archive, accessed December 11, 2024, https://rozsixties.unl.edu/items/show/244.