As unlikely as it seems, I would be willing to bet the a fair number of people who voted for Perot did so because they wanted to vote for him and not as a protest against the other candidates. For instance, in discussing the 1992 election, he states that 19% of voters were unhappy with the choices given by the two major parties and protested against the choices they were given by voting for Ross Perot. He also assumes meanings to events that are not really there. Zinn also misuses data to make his points, for example, comparing incomes between two groups but only converting one into 2004 dollars.
The other 98% are forgotten about, I assume because they have jobs and don't have time to protest.
Zinn then goes on the talk about civil rights protestors, anti-war protestors, prison protestors, Indian protestors, and on and on, so in reality, the "people" are the 1% of the population who protest. Zinn makes the point of describing the "people" from the title by saying 1% of Americans control 45% of the wealth, the "people" are the other 99%. Apparently, according to Zinn, the 20th Century didn't begin until the 1960s and then everyone protested a lot of things. This is an abridgement of Zinn's A People's History of the United States that only covers the 20th Century. Professor Zinn and I have vastly different political beliefs but I'm going to discuss his book and not his politics right up until the end.
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