Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Conversely, the white ethnic wards, which have voted solidly Democratic since William ("Big Bill") Thompson was elected the last Republican mayor in 1927, went heavily for Epton. In the Polish-Irish-Russian 13th Ward on the Southwest Side, Epton took 34,856 votes to Washington's 1,457. Even the famed Eleventh Ward of Bridgeport, the bedrock Democratic base of the late Mayor Daley, voted overwhelmingly Republican. Holding the electoral balance were the city's six affluent "Lakefront Liberal" wards. Undecided until the very end, they finally gave Washington 40% of their vote, enough to assure...
...Democratic Party keeps peace--and power--by promising fair shakes to competing interests, which are mostly Chicago's fractions ethnic enclaves...
Chicago's racial trouble stems from strong ethnic enclaves that have very little contact with one another," he said...
...race was the kind of ethnic power struggle long-apparent in urban politics, and didn't reflect any national tensions. Gray said, adding that Goode had no such problems in Philadelphia, in his race against former mayor Frank Rizzo...
...everybody sleeping around like characters in a Restoration play, while she records the events with misery and wit. At times her comedy seems borrowed; the paradoxes are straight out of Peter De Vries: "All summer long I was snapping at him because he was never there." And the ethnic comedy ("The Jewish prince doesn't mean 'Where's the butter?' He means 'Get me the butter'") might have come from a property settlement with her first husband. But when Ephron is herself, she can be the most painfully funny two-time loser in America...