Word: ethnical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...candidate's cabin, not a moment was wasted. Wearing a plaid smoking jacket (to keep his coat unwrinkled for the day's appearances), Nixon received the daily "tip" by his staff on the situation at the next stop: population of the town (broken down by ethnic groups), its prides and its problems, its political complexion, the situation in the congressional races, the people who should be mentioned in his speech. Said one staff report as the plane droned over Texas: "San Antonio is a popular winter resort and a haven for many elderly people who have retired there...
...election in which their party regularity will be a significant asset. But the members of each faction total only 700,000 each in a constituency of two and a half million registered voters, so the independent--who in Massachusetts is typically the sought-after member of an ethnic group--will again be decisive in this Massachusetts election...
...believes that his method is better than public-opinion polls. The pollsters try to get a census cross section in taking their samplings-a method that Lubell regards as rigid and superficial. Instead, Lubell goes on the theory that people vote according to group interests, sectional, economic, ethnic, religious. He charts and studies election returns in every U.S. county and most big-city precincts, as far back as the last century, to isolate the important shifting currents in group voting. From these studies, which take far more time than interviewing, Lubell decides what doorbells to ring and what questions...
...Basques are fiercely proud of being a distinct ethnic group, different in origin and language from all other Europeans. Some ethnologists consider them a remnant of the peoples who inhabited Western Europe in the Stone Age, long before the prehistoric Indo-European migrations from the east. In the complex Basque language-so difficult that, according to a Basque proverb, the devil himself failed to learn it in seven tries-stone is aitz, knife is aizto. Though basically a mountain folk, Basques make good seamen, like to point out that the pilot of Columbus' flagship, the Santa Maria...
...land which is so proud of what it calls "social mobility" which becomes more and more mythical as things become stabilized an according to unwritten law which ten to assert once and for all the supremacy of Nordics, of whites over blacks, of Protestants over all the rest--each ethnic group owes it to itself to prove its often imaginary purity. The government has in vain stepped up publication of its propaganda posters and buses shows three new-born babies, with the inscription "Just born all Americans. Do not poison