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...sure I'll vote Republican this year." The political advertisement showed the frustration among American workers with President Carter and the liberal ideals that governed American policy-making for nearly a half-century. Polls indicate that as much as one-half of the nation's blue-collar voters supported Reagan in the 1980 presidential election, giving this longstanding foe of organized labor a lopsided electoral victory in such traditionally Democratic states as Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Michigan...
...appeal to the middle-class, blue collar workers of Reagan's conservative economic policies was just as successful as their pitch to white-collar counterparts and businessmen. In fact, Reagan's campaign strategy involved side-stepping union leadership, whose political alliances could only remain with the Democrats, and wooing the rank-and-file with appeals to patriotism and traditional values. That a large number of workers accepted a candidate aggressively opposed to organized labor is not difficult to understand. An active interest in bread-and-butter labor issues naturally wanes with the achievement of middle-class status and solidly entrenched...
Despite the rising productivity of blue collar workers and the declining productivity of managers, as documented by MIT economist Lester Thurow, union members are being asked to bear the brunt of America's economic decline. Though many workers have risen to middle class stature and find the PATCO strike distasteful, the business-labor alliance may not last long at all. Washington's September 19 Solidarity Day is the first symbolic hint of these shifting winds...
This has made some residents of Bullhead City hot under the collar. Dick Smith, who owns Dick and Lovella's Five Grand Cafe, is leading a petition drive to move the thermometer back. Says Smith of the new publicity glare: "It's caused my business to fall off 20% to 30%." But Baudouine is unapologetic. "This kind of notoriety is good for the community," he says. Cooler heads among Bullhead City businessmen seem to agree. According to a membership survey by the Chamber of Commerce, 90% think the summer superlative is "good for business...
...course, your paramour.) It has long been called Survival City. Another monicker was Mobtown, after its citizens' proclivity for rioting. Because it was long famed for 50 beer, 100 crabcakes and 150 rye whisky, it was more affectionately dubbed Nickel City. Bawlamer, 252 years old, was traditionally a blue-collar, beer-and-shot town, built on 19th century technologies, mainly steel and shipbuilding, that have since trailed off, as has its population. Of its 780,000 people, down from 939,000 in 1960, almost 55% are now black, of whom 40% or more are jobless...