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Whether he likes it or not, Mondale is once again the candidate to beat. Unlike previous favorites who fell apart after New Hampshire upsets, Mondale has struggled back on top. Illinois was a solid win for him. Labor rallied, the blue-collar workers and old folks turned out, the regular Democrats followed the endorsements of party leaders. Mondale even reached into the Chicago suburbs to win a large share of Hart's Yumpie (young upwardly mobile professional) vote. It went pretty much according to the pundits' script-at least as it was written before New Hampshire, when...
...district includes three distinct sections: the traditionally Democratic blue-collar New Bedford area, which still depends on commercial fishing for much of its livelihood; the more conservative and more elderly constituency on Cape Cod; and the affluent liberal suburbs to the southeast of Boston...
...taking a sociology junior tutorial and studying about the working class-studies that the feels might help him to cover, for example, professional bowling and "understand the stresses and strains of these athletes who consider themselves like blue-collar factory workers and are parely breaking even on the tour...
...Memphis Press-Scimitar (as in sword) folded on Halloween. It was known as a blue-collar paper. The next morning, the Commercial Appeal, which is not known as a blue-collar paper, announced that among the many changes to come, the newspaper would be made "easier to read." To boot, a full one-fourth of the front page was occupied by a color photograph of a black man picking cotton, a quaint idea in an enormous amount of space. Alas, it seemed, a newspaper had finally reached a par with television: it had managed to torment one's intelligence...
Another problem with the increasing rents in Cambridge is the so called "gentrification" of the city; its transition from an area dominated by blue-collar families to a "bedroom community" of upper-middle class communters...