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<p>Alexis <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/12/vampire-vs-zombie-comparing-word-usage-through-time/68203/" target="_self">collects</a> some of the most amusing Ngrams&#0160;into a slideshow. Seth Masket <a href="http://enikrising.blogspot.com/2010/12/use-of-term-ideology.html" target="_self">provides</a> the above <a href="http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=liberal%2Cideology%2Cconservative&amp;year_start=1800&amp;year_end=2000&amp;corpus=0&amp;smoothing=3" target="_self">comparison</a>:</p>
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<p>This supports a claim <a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?isbn=9780226470740">Frances Lee </a>makes in <em>Beyond Ideology</em>&#0160;that the concept of ideology is a relatively recent one. &#0160;It was invented, she argues, in the mid-20th century by journalists and political scientists as a way to explain the behavior of southern and northern Democrats, who seemed to vote differently once in a while despite being of the same party. &#0160;Prior to that time, we really had no concept of ideology as something distinct from party.</p>
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