Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eddie Vrdolyak, former boss of Chicago, announced he was leaving the Democratic party of his immigrant parents, who found a home in one of the ethnic neighborhoods of Chicago, in order to join the Republican party of Lake Shore Drive. Apparently the Democrats no longer represented the interests that had drawn Vrdolyak's family to the party...
...Vrdolyak those interests are tied to supporting the white ethnic workers upon whose votes the urban political machine originally had been based. To its credit, the Democratic party no longer represents only the interests of this group of white people. It has in recent years recognized the Blacks that live in the city...
FORTUNATELY for the party the needs of white ethnic and Black laborers are very similiar. Vrdolyak has refused to recognize that. Instead he has let his own distaste for dealing with Black politicians drive him from the party that strives to meet the needs of all people...
...ELECTION proved that Chicago politics had been changed for ever. Blacks, not Irish or Slavs, are now the dominant ethnic force. But this is not the Chicago machine's last hurrah; it's a chance for a new beginning...
...Marzilli counters that "those old, large families aren't so large any more." He says that while their grandparents' generation fades, young voters are moving out of Cambridge ethnic neighborhoods into suburbs with lower rents...