Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...might have been tempted to come out soon for Humphrey now have an excuse to wait and see. Indiana also gave Kennedy a nudge in the right direction for this week's Nebraska primary. The New Yorker is now in a position to trot ahead to Oregon, California and South Dakota. At week's end Kennedy seemed in a good position to score again...
...Tunica County, one of the poorest in the nation, where according to the latest census eight out of every ten families live below the poverty line, 37% of the households own washing machines, 48% own cars, and 52% own television sets. In the Los Angeles district of Watts, California's most notorious Slough of Despond, the orderly rows of one-story, stucco houses reflect the sun in gay pastels, and only the weed-grown gaps between stores along the wide main streets?"instant parking lots"?hint at the volcanic mob fury that three years ago erupted out of poverty...
...CALIFORNIA: Poor for a Reason California, as the nation's most populous state, also houses poverty's most divergent allotment of poor. Their moods are remarkably lacking in self-pity. "My old lady went on welfare after we split up," says John Ross, 27, a white San Francisco warehouseman. "I think it stinks. People are so tied to that crummy check that they're afraid to say boo." Down Salinas way, in the bean-and-lettuce country celebrated by Steinbeck, leather-handed migrant workers?some of them Latin-Americans, whose 2,000,000 poor rank second only to Negroes...
...been a victory, true, but neither had it been a defeat. McCarthy, even in an uncongenial state, still couldn't be beaten. Some staff members were leaving that night for Nebraska. Others would be going on to California the next day. The staff room was jammed with volunteers asking for full-time staff applications. Many had decided to screw school and stay with the campaign. Others would get out to the Coast after exams. And everyone promised to meet in Chicago. The crusade was still snowballing; the entourage of idealistic college dropouts was growing. Someone made a sign: Robert Lowell...
...Washington was about to leave. We stood, un washed, bleary-eyed in the half-fare line. Just before take-off, Larry O'Brien, ex-Postmaster General now masterminding Bobby's campaign, arrived. We hissed. He turned, glanced at our buttons, smiled. We told him we would see him in California. The Crusade had still to reach the Holy Land