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...second electoral trend is the growing influence of Latino voters. Latinos are the fastest-growing demographic group in the United States, and hundreds of thousands register to vote every year. In the 1996 presidential election, the Latino vote was particularly crucial in California and also in Florida and Arizona, two states that went Democratic for the first time in decades largely because of the Latino vote. The emergent political power of Latinos was evident in the race for California's 46th district, where Loretta Sanchez defeated Rep. Bob Dornan, known for his rhetorical bombast and unreconstructed xenophobia. The Republicans' attempts...
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Arizona is the third fastest-growing state in the nation, with a Latino population that has nearly doubled and an economy--lightly regulated--that seems to be keeping pace. But growth has brought increased crime, especially in urban areas, along with the question of how to allocate water cost efficiently. One thing that hasn't changed: conservative politics. The home of Barry Goldwater, the G.O.P.'s 1964 presidential candidate, Arizona gave Ross Perot a quarter of its vote in 1992 and is still the only state in the Union to have voted Republican in every presidential election since...
...writes, "Aside from the infected needles or blood transfusions, AIDS is overwhelmingly acquired through abnormal sexual practices." If he means to include the "abnormal" sexual practice of heterosexuality, then his statement is correct. While there are more homosexuals with AIDS, heterosexual young adults are the fastest-rising group of HIV carriers. This means that within 10 years, the AIDS Memorial Quilt will be overwhelmingly covered with the names of our heterosexual contemporaries and friends...
Maybe I-64 should be renamed Toyota Road. Along the 500-mile stretch of interstate that winds past Georgetown and Princeton on its way from West Virginia to St. Louis, Missouri, the world's No. 3 automaker--after General Motors and Ford--has quietly become America's fastest growing automaker. Amid the rich corn, wheat and soybean fields, Toyota is building a vast industrial empire in the center of America's heartland, with I-64 as the hub for some $8 billion of North American investments. By 2000 Toyota hopes the public will view the company as the fourth member...