Word: ethnicity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...voting system is as complex as the City's ethnic pockets are colorful. Voters must number the names on the ballot in their order of preference instead of making a single "x". An average of 2000 of 30,000 ballots are declared invalid in every election...
Some of Minnesota's success can be traced to its ethnic traditions. The earliest pioneers were American Yankees. Then came the migrations?Germans after the Revolution of 1848, then waves of Irish and Scandinavians, later...
Arthur Naftalin, a brilliant mayor of Minneapolis during the '60s, points out that no single group?ethnic, religious or business?has ever been able to take control of the state. There were no Tammany machines to greet the immigrants. "With our great variety," says Naftalin, "we have always had to form coalitions...
...Hofstede, 32, grew up in the working class, ethnic neighborhoods of northeast Minneapolis. He worked his way through Saint Thomas College in St. Paul, eventually won a seat as a Minneapolis city alderman at the age of 26. Appointed chairman of the metropolitan council in 1971, Hofstede two weeks ago announced his candidacy for mayor of Minneapolis in a bid to unseat Charles S. Stenvig. "I would like to make politics my life," says Hofstede. "There is a purpose here...
...undeniable disaster. The McGovern "guerrilla" movement, as White tells it, was born on a hot, violent night in Chicago in 1968, when distracted delegates to the Democratic National Convention voted to reform their party during the next four years-and unwittingly bound themselves to what in effect became ethnic, sexual and youth quotas. Dominated by a staff of zealous reformers, the resulting commission succeeded in passing a series of sweeping new rules favorable to women, youth and blacks virtually under the unsuspecting noses of many party regulars...