Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...short, economic interests have displaced ethnic interests. But sociologists insist, with some justice, that this new melt in the melting pot extends chiefly to the political and economic spheres. In other areas, what they call "structural separation" persists. According to a theory first propounded by Sociologist Ruby Jo Reeves Kennedy, the U.S. is really a "triple melting pot," with the true cohesion growing within religious groups. An Irish Catholic is more likely to marry another Catholic (Polish, German or Italian) than a Protestant; similarly, a Protestant Swede tends to marry another Protestant (Finn, Dutch, Scotch, English). In religion...
...most part, they find these in a state of established confidence that is far different from an embattled community simply welcoming reinforcements. Even the old neighborhoods are breaking up. University of Chicago Historian Richard Wade points out: "Apart from the nonwhite groups, more than half the members of each ethnic group in America have left the old neighborhood and scattered across the cities." Mostly they have moved because they have edged up the income scale and can afford a better neighborhood or the suburbs...
...process is going on all over. Says Ohio's State Senator Michael J. Maloney of Cincinnati: "It's hard any more in Cincinnati to locate ethnic areas, the Italians and Germans in particular, and the Irish too. You don't have the enclaves that used to exist, like the over-the-Rhine area across the canal." Once, south St. Louis was as German as Berlin, studded with beer gardens. Turnvereins and regular Schutzen-fests. Today the beer gardens have become bars, the Turnvereins have disbanded, and the Germans who made their start in south St. Louis have...
Yale's Professor Robert Dahl, in a study of New Haven politics, points out that a genuinely ethnic group remains seriously ethnic only so long as it remains proletarian. But the time comes when large segments of the group are assimilated into the "middling and upper strata ... and look to others in the middling strata for friends, associates and marriage partners. To these people, ethnic politics is often embarrassing or meaningless." In New Haven, he set rough dates for the achievement of this state by various groups-the Germans by 1920, the Irish 1930, Russians 1940, Italians 1950, Negroes...
...Most ethnic groups have become so much integrated into the general political community that they are only remotely identifiable ethnically in political terms. The Swedish and Norwegian workingmen of North Minneapolis traditionally, and still do, vote Democratic; the richer Scandinavians of suburban Minneapolis and the richer farms of southern Minnesota habitually vote Republican. In Chicago's 1963 mayoralty election, Republican Candidate Benjamin Adam-owski carried all the Polish blue-collar wards in the inner city but lost the vote of the richer Poles living in the suburbs. Even with Negroes, who have the added problem of color, the economic...