Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the essence of the change lies in rising incomes, education, family life and culture, the most visible demonstration is found in election returns. To the dismay of the pros-mostly Democrats, since the Democrats have long counted the ethnic groups in their column-minorities in the recent elections picked and chose with as much stiff-necked individualism as any Mayflower Yankee...
...wide open, deserting Democrat Edward McCormack by the thousands to re-elect Italian Republican John Volpe, who had been a good and popular Governor. Volpe even took that oldest Irish stronghold of all, Boston, city of "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald and James Curley. In New York, the Democrats followed the ethnic book by put ting an Italian (Frank Sedita) on the ticket as attorney general, but Rockefeller handily carried the Italian vote...
...polls, to help elect Republican Senator John Tower, as a protest against the conservative Democratic candidate, Waggoner Carr. In Michigan, Governor George Romney carried Macomb County, a district full of prosperous second-generation Poles, by an easy 18,000-vote margin over Zolton Ferency, "the man with the ethnic name." Perhaps the most clear-cut demonstration came in Chicago's heavily Polish Eleventh District, which has been represented for years by a professional Pole, Representative Roman Pucinski. Pucinski is part owner of a Polish-language radio station, his mother has her own Polish program on another station...
...minorities, still tend to bloc voting in the classic pattern. But even among Negroes, the racial lines did not always hold, and Stokely Carmichael's retrograde, black-power appeal clearly upset nearly as many Negroes as whites. In Baltimore, 83% of the Negro vote went to Republican (and "ethnic" Greek) Spiro Agnew for Governor-though only two years ago it had gone equally heavily along its traditional Democratic lines for Lyndon Johnson. And though Edward Brooke drew the small Negro vote in his race for Massachusetts Senator, he won with white votes and was careful not to present himself...
None of this means that ethnic factors have disappeared from politics. It does mean that they are far more complex than they used to be, and are deeply intertwined with particular issues and the appeal of particular candidates...