Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state-wide race and thus become the number three party in the state. What is really important is that the swing voting block, which has dominated New York state politics for more than twenty years, is about to be supplanted by an entirely different and often hostile bloc...
...bloc is, of course, made up of New York City liberals (both large and small L). It is safe, and probably not irrelevant, to say that most of these voters are Jewish. Though in political elections they tend to vote heavily Democratic, they have cherished a long-time hostility to local Democrats. They have always mistrusted the Irish and other Democratic "bosses" in the City, and have felt (sometimes correctly) that these men had an insufficient regard for civil liberties and for liberal positions on other non-bread-and-butter issues...
...City liberal bloc has been decisive in the string of Republican successes in New York during the last twenty-five years. They have cheerfully deserted Democrats for Dewey, Ives, Javits, Rockefeller, Lefkowitz, Keating, and, most recently, Lindsay. In local races, they traditionally shun those Democrats against whom the Liberals have run their own candidate or supported the Republican...
...swing block in New York might best be called the Kennedy bloc. It consists mainly of middle-class and working-class Upstaters and suburbanites, a large majority of them Italian, Polish, and Irish Catholics, who used to vote Republican as a matter of course. They were Upstaters, and Upstaters voted Republican. Robert Kennedy in 1964 changed all that. Although he did not run particularly strong in the city (city liberals were, as usual, busy being finicky and discovering all the hidden virtues of the Republican candidate), he undercut Keating by actually carrying Upstate New York and losing the suburban counties...
...gaunt intriguer who is one of Viet Nam's wealthiest businessmen (Saigon real estate, Delta rice lands), is also an ally of Phan Khac Suu and was imprisoned by the Diem and Khanh regimes. Van is the potential leader of a 44-seat southern bloc in the new assembly...