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[ noun ] the widespread aspiration of Americans to live better than their parents did

Used in print

(Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)

Or_else the North really believes that all Southerners except a_few quaint old characters have come_around to realizing the errors of their past , and are now at_heart sharers of the American_Dream , like everybody else .

Related terms

ambition

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