Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...might come as a surprise to many to learn that according to 1974 census bureau reports, total government expenditures in Alabama since Wallace took office in 1962 have risen 356.9 per cent, over twice as much as the federal budget increase. In those same years the state debt rose by over 200 per cent, almost twice the national average...
...moderate to very liberal: California's Ronald Reagan, Alabama's George Wallace, Georgia's Jimmy Carter, Arizona's Morris Udall, Oklahoma's Fred Harris and, until they dropped out, Texas' Lloyd Bentsen and North Carolina's Terry Sanford. After the 1980 census, if the current population shifts continue, the states of the South and West will increase their total congressional representation from 210 to 225 seats. The states of the Northeast and Midwest will lose 15 of their seats, declining to 210. Yet the old Southern conservatism is losing some of its force...
...Americans are growing more conservative, that cannot be blamed on just one region. The political views of Americans depend far more on their occupations and on their racial and ethnic backgrounds than on where they live. Political Analyst Scammon, former director of the Census Bureau, observes: "If a plumber decides to move from East Orange, N.J., to Galveston, Texas, he is likely to continue voting the way he has been voting, assuming he continues to work as a plumber in Galveston." The newcomers tend to bring their political baggage with them...
...time, as the effects of the American occupation in the south are not likely to be easily eradicated, but already their governments work closely together in preparation for unification. The Vietnamese people will elect representatives to a National Assembly this spring, as soon as the PRG finishes conducting a census of the south, and the two Vietnams will merge...
...education," as he concedes, without coming across too abashedly. He speaks four languages, including Mandarin Chinese, and his work for the U.S. Army in the early '50s as a machine technician and then for its Criminal Investigation Division, led to his interrogation and imprisonment for Lao Gai during the Census of Foreigners in 1954. At the time of his arrest he was working as a cultural attache for a Western embassy (unnamed), reporting on rationing measures, worker's gossip, and so on. In this last position his prying, even if routine, rankled the new government and, while his function...