Atwater

[at-waw-ter, -wot-er]

noun

1. a town in central California.

2. a first name.

Example Sentences

Light rain was reported in Koreatown and Atwater Village on Friday morning, and stray showers are also possible near the northern Ventura and L.A.

From Los Angeles Times

In 1981, Lee Atwater, the cutthroat GOP strategist, famously explained how a core component of the “Southern Strategy” was using terms like “welfare queen” and states’ rights” as stand-ins for the N-word.

From Salon

Atwater, who died in 1991, would no doubt have loved “DEI” and how it’s deployed by Republicans.

From Salon

It’s an accusation that goes back to Lee Atwater and George H.W.

From Slate

For at least 60 years — from Richard Nixon’s “law and order” response to the mass protests and uprisings of the 1960s to Lee Atwater’s infamous Southern Strategy of the 1980s — Republicans have branded Democrats and liberals as being soft on crime.

From Salon