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In the 1970s, the term was applied to wealthy liberal supporters of open-housing and forced school busing who didn't make use of public schooling.

In Boston, Massachusetts, supporters of busing, such as Senator Ted Kennedy, sent their children to private schools or lived in affluent suburbs.

To some South Boston residents, Kennedy's support of a plan that " integrated " their children with blacks and his apparent unwillingness to do the same with his own children, was hypocrisy.