Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many states this has already meant a distinct change in the style of politics. Where minority group votes have literally been bought for decades in Texas--usually by the conservative machine--the new militancy within first the black community, then the brown community (Mexican-American), and now the student community have forced a change. Each minnority is making its own decisions about its goals and needs whether in minority caucuses at conventions or in community elections...
...wake of this change, the old liberal goal of a unified group of insurgents of the early '60's has been scrapped in states with significant minority groups. The new goal are coalitions. Forming a coalition is a touchy business for the context in which it is formed usually determines its degree of success...
...coalition must be a joint effort from the very first meeting or else one group feels slighted and may create problems at a later time...
...Minneapolis last weekend a group of about fifteen prominent anti-Administration politicians met to try to tie together what has happened since the convention and what might come about in the future. Among them were a few of the new stars of 1968 like Allard K. Lowenstein, the New Yorker who founded the Dump Johnson campaign and put together a McCarthy-dominated Coalition for an Open Convention last summer with some Kennedy support, Julian Bond of Georgia, and Donald O. Peterson, the Wisconsin delegation chairman who refused to buckle under to Mayor Daley...
...this time NDC allies have taken over nine states outside the South, including Wisconsin and California and have substantial power (above forty per cent) in another ten. Including the semi-legitimate Georgia (Julian Bond) group and the newly recognized National Democratic Party of Alabama, the insurgent base is even greater...