Word: ethnicity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bloc and-like whites-split their ticket as they pleased. The newly enfranchised 18-to 21-year-old voters were conspicuous for working with -and not against-their elders. In Virginia, an independent won the race for lieutenant governor on a populist platform that cut across class and ethnic lines, offering a seeming palliative for almost every plain citizen's nagging anxieties...
...ORDER. As expected, Mr. Law-and-Order, Frank Rizzo. was elected mayor of Philadelphia. The onetime police commissioner, who had stridently campaigned against permissive liberals and black militants, drew most of his support from the city's ethnic population, especially Italian Americans. But he also got 25% of the black vote, even though black leaders had denounced him as a racist. It was a sign that some blacks are as worried about crime as whites. His Republican opponent, Thacher Longstreth, ran a smooth campaign, but he was unable to stop the tide of Republican crossovers who liked the image...
Defender of the Faith concerns a World War II trainee (Jon Korkes) who practices a kind of coreligionist blackmail on his sergeant (David Ackroyd) to secure special privileges for the camp's Jewish contingent. Between the laughs and the plot twists lurks the question of where ethnic solidarity begins and ends. Epstein, the funniest of the tales, focuses on that universal malady, middle age. Epstein's morale has drooped in exact ratio to the sag of his wife Goldie's breasts. In the title role, Lou Jacobi, who looks rather like a Levantine Walter Cronkite, is hilarious...
...brotherly love, "the toughest cop in the world," as Frank Rizzo calls himself, was elected Mayor. He defeated a Republican liberal, Thatcher Longstreth, by 50,000 votes out of a total of 750,000. Rizzo's strong law-and-order appeal won him widespread support from the city's ethnic groups, most notably Italians (of which Rizzo is one), Irish, and poorer Jews. Longstreth won substantial support among more wealthy Jews, white liberals and blacks...
Despite this, one can be sure that Nixon's political analysts are looking to Philadelphia and Cleveland as hopeful signs for their man in 1972. If traditional politics in the cities is being broken up by new ethnic alignments based upon law and order, then the Democrats will be in serious trouble in urban areas. Nixon may not win the cities in 1972; but these votes would seem to indicate that the cities will not give the Democrats the large margins they've traditionally needed to carry the big states...