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Moon Landrieu, 43, mayor of New Orleans since 1970, governs with the help of a coalition of blacks, white liberals and blue-collar workers. A keenly instinctual politician, Landrieu was elected to the Louisiana legislature at 29 and won notoriety by standing almost alone against a bundle of bills that sought to prevent compliance with federal desegregation orders. As chairman of the legislative action committee of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, he helped to negotiate federal revenue-sharing money for cities...
...Miller found that the majority are young (median age: 24) white males. In general, they are poorly educated (32.5% never graduated from high school; only 9.2% from college) and, contrary to the national pattern, received considerably less education than their fathers, who, for the most part, work at blue-collar and low-level white-collar occupations...
...tired of white liberals always reminding you that if you take two steps forward, you always have to remember your un fortunate brethren. Look at white people who live in the rich suburb of Barrington Hills. They don't go down to Cicero and mingle with the blue-collar workers." The Rev. Ralph Abernathy, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, once jokingly reprimanded a black doctor from Detroit for driving a Rolls-Royce. Responded the doctor: "Reverend, I said I would help the poor. I didn't say I was going to be poor...
Compared with the August figures, the Nixon loyalists today are more likely to be over 50 years of age (36% v. 42%), not to have gone to college (58% v. 64%), to be blue-collar workers (38% v. 42%), and live in the South (34% v. 40%). The Nixonites of last August who have since deserted the President are almost entirely under 35, have attended college, and hold white-collar jobs...
...bypassed the aged, struggling to live on fixed pensions at a time of 18% inflation, and the wage earners: two-thirds of France's 20 million workers struggle along on annual incomes of $4,800 or less. Salaries of upper-level executives average 4.6 times as much as blue-collar wages-the highest spread between employer and employee income in Europe...