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...years the Democrats had controlled the U.S. Senate. Through Democratic and Republican presidencies, wars and scandals, riots and recessions, Democratic Senators maintained a majority in the "World's Greatest Deliberative Body." Then came the 1980 election-night massacre, when the heartland liberals, the George McGoverns and Frank Churches and Birch Bayhs, were sent packing by a band of upstart Republicans, most of them quite conservative and many undistinguished, who rode into office on Ronald Reagan's flowing coattails. The Democrats lost the majority that night. This year, with that G.O.P. class of 1980 up for re-election for the first...
...heartland, where right-wing candidates knocked so many liberal Senators into political oblivion in 1980, there is but one real election issue this year: the farm crisis. Class of '80 members who are favored to win -- Wisconsin's Robert Kasten, Iowa's Charles Grassley, Indiana's Dan Quayle, Oklahoma's Don Nickles -- have tried to distance themselves from Reagan's farm policies. But their colleague, James Abdnor of South Dakota, fumbled the farm issue and subsequently found himself fighting an uphill battle for re- election...
...wealth of the tall grass prairie was its undoing," writes Author John Madson, of Godfrey, Ill., in Where the Sky Began, his evocative story of the fecund heartland. Nearly a year's production of corn lies unused in bins and warehouses. A quarter of a year of soybeans is stored up. The Western plains are piled with a year's worth of surplus wheat. The harvest of the new wheat crop is almost finished, and it is a whopper: 2.2 billion bu. Providence seems to be pushing us toward some rendezvous with disaster. The Corn Belt is like John Bunyan...
...Coastal Economy managed to make it look that way only by excluding from the ranks of "coastal" states timber- producing Washington and Oregon and steel-dependent Pennsylvania (which lacks a coastline but is considered part of the Mid-Atlantic region). Nor is all gloom in the heartland. Michigan, one of the most depressed states a few years ago, has achieved a remarkable turnaround, thanks to heavy spending by the auto companies to battle import competition and successful efforts to attract electronics and other high-tech industries...
Moreover, economists discern some trends that could change the coast-vs.- heartland pattern. The big jump in defense spending that has benefited coastal states more than inland ones is over. Falling oil prices seem likely to help fuel-burning industries in the Midwest even more than they hurt the fuel- producing states. Says Robert Z. Lawrence of the Brookings Institution: "The one thing you learn when you look at regional developments is how transitory they...