Word: ethnicity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those delegates will swing to whichever candidate the polls and the pols say can run better against Jimmy Carter. Reagan's partisans argue tirelessly that only he can give Carter a stiff battle in the South, beat him in the West, draw off some of his blue collar, ethnic support in the industrial North. Besides. Reagan is even more "anti-Washington" than Carter and would at least match his argument that he can cut down the bureaucracy...
...residences abroad. Whether they emigrate will depend on the outcome of the next general election (probably in February). Manley's People's National Party currently has 35 seats in Parliament, to 17 for the opposition Labor Party, led by Edward Seaga. An able economist, Seaga faces the ethnic disadvantage of his Lebanese ancestry; he is light-skinned in an overwhelmingly black nation. Nonetheless, he stands a good chance of winning if there is more violence and the economy continues to stagger. Many Jamaicans are convinced that will be the case. In the sad words of a current...
...group of his Japanese-American friends to support his son while he writes. "There's an active interest among Asian-Americans to see something written," Asakawa said. "Tradition keeps your identity in a lot of ways. And in recent years it has become popular to encourage separate communities of ethnics to develop." But, he added, "a novel doesn't work just because you are an ethnic, unfortunately...
...heavy favorite can, like one sure thing in a class D match of yesteryear, simply lie down on the track, look at the crowd and take a piss, while the fans that bet on him (her) scream for blood. From Class D the dogs are sent to various ethnic restaurants in the area...
...South of the 1920s is dead, of course, and so is the Southern Baptism of the '20s. Baptist leaders today protest with justifiable vehemence against stereotyped suspicions. "We're not a bunch of right-wing bigots," says Floyd Craig. "We're a pluralistic people. Every ethnic group is represented." Some 70,000 blacks now belong to the Southern Baptist churches, and several of the organization's key staffers are black. On the other hand, that 70,000 represents only one-half of 1 %-a minuscule figure that Baptist leaders ascribe partly to local autonomy, partly...