Who Were Known as the "Great Silent Majority

Who were known as the "great silent majority"?

A) Americans who quietly approved of the social and cultural changes of the 1960s
B) Americans who were against the Vietnam War, although uninvolved in open protest
C) upper-class Americans whose influence was growing weaker by the early 1970s
D) African American politicians who were being elected in greater numbers than ever before
E) the middle-class Americans whose votes had brought Richard Nixon to the presidency