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latent hostility |
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In my own research, which has brushed over Wallace in his early years as governor, I have come across one strikingly succinct formulation of his original secret, written in 1964 by an awestruck Alabama reporter struggling to explain the success of Wallace's first speeches outside the South: "He gave every hearer a chance to transmute a latent hostility toward the Negro into a hostility toward big government. Also, there is a latent hostility toward American Golf as the result of a Riordan-inspired attempt - later dropped under pressure from unions and golfers - to look at privatizing city golf courses. |
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latent hostility - feelings of hostility that are not manifest; "he could sense her latent hostility to him"; "the diplomats' first concern was to reduce international tensions"