Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...African American, this former heartland Republican district has changed dramatically over the years. Naughton, however, who calls himself a Reagan Democrat, believes that fighting for tax relief, opposing abortion and giving parents a chance to send their children to private school will strike an appealing chord with the predominantly working-class people of the First...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "Most African Americans just want a comfortable, middle-class life-style...Twenty-five years ago, I didn't know that...
Wynn is a popular two-term Congressman from the only majority African-American suburban district in the country. He takes good care of his constituents, many of whom are federal employees. He pushed to include a measure in the 1994 Defense Authorization bill that provided $50 million in aid to laid-off military workers, and was one of the few Democrats who supported a G.O.P. compromise to end the federal shutdown last winter...
QUOTE OF NOTE: [On lack of federal interest in investigating militia groups] "If these militia and paramilitary groups were African American, law-enforcement agencies would be falling over each other...to investigate...
...Wild Bill" Clay was called a militant when he went to Congress 28 years ago. The first African-American legislator from Missouri, he is still an energetic Democrat: he wanted to cancel the stamp honoring Richard Nixon, and is a persistent critic of Contract with America legislation. A friend of labor and sponsor of the Family and Medical Leave Act, Clay, who survived the 1992 disclosure of 328 House bank overdrafts, still seems solid...