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Keep up means to stay with the pace, whereas keep down is to oppress, or not to disgorge.
In Sulloway's universe, firstborns are dictatorial types who just don't get it, but they're happy to oppress freedom-loving laterborns who do.
Fundamentalist locals identify with and may even be protecting Rudolph because they view his pursuit as part of a government conspiracy to oppress them.
That is a rough description of what Kevin Phillips later called the emerging Republican majority: the crowd whose voting habits were molded by the act of detesting the likes of Bobby Kennedy--politicians who never worked a day in their lives, who were eager (so the perception went) to oppress the plain folk with burdensome taxes in order to fatten the undeserving poor, eager to sell out America's military supremacy out of some guilt-ridden moralism.
Their guests confess, the hosts oppress, and the audience laughs its head off.