Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...national issues. The social questions that dominated the past two elections?law-and-order, welfare, and busing to integrate schools?were absent for the most part. Instead, inflation and the recession withered voters' attitudes toward Republican incumbents. Explains Emil Gutoski, a Republican precinct captain in Cicero, Ill., a blue-collar suburb of Chicago: "When people are hurting, they vote the opposition." Adds Political Demographer Ben Wattenberg: "In tunes of economic trouble, this country still regards the Democratic Party as the one that's more for the little guys...
...issues. Explains Yankelovich: "No choices of action on the issues were offered them, so many said: Why bother? What difference does it make?" But even though about three-fifths of the registered voters stayed home, there were some noteworthy trends. In the Northeast, the old Democratic coalition of blue-collar ethnics, white-collar liberals and minorities helped elect three Governors: Hugh Carey in New York, Ella Grasso in Connecticut and Michael S. Dukakis in Massachusetts. In the South, a new breed of moderate Democrats ended a decade of growth by Republicans. In the Midwest, big Democratic victories for state offices...
While Petrocelly admits that the service industries are absorbing blue collar jobs, he says that the flight of small Cambridge firms to industrial centers in both the south and abroad has a much greater immediate impact on working class unemployment in the city...
Even more galling to the CTOC, however, is MIT's strong desire for middle-and upper-income housing in Kendall Square. The CTOC argues that such housing, which is too expensive for most blue collar workers, will cause a "ripple effect" that will raise real estate costs in nearby working class neighborhoods even faster than they are rising...
Critics of the plan say that MIT is trying to turn Cambridge into a "luxury city" by forcing blue collar workers out of their jobs and houses...