Word: hickman
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Before last week's unexpectedly close Virginia contest, Pollster Harrison Hickman got revealing results by making an offbeat correlation. When white voters were questioned by white pollsters, Hickman found, they favored Republican Marshall Coleman by 16 points. But when whites were telephoned by interviewers with recognizably black intonation, they leaned to Douglas Wilder by 10 points...
Racism in the crude sense does not necessarily motivate people to misinform pollsters, Hickman says. Rather, some respondents succumb to a misguided urge to give answers they think will please the questioner. Whatever the reason, pollsters in black-white contests should learn to take the discrepancy into account -- at least until such racial match-ups cease to be novelties...
...There's nothing here for me," says Jeffrey Hickman, 18, a Villa Griffin resident. "Only dope, gangs and shooting every night. I'll stay and graduate from school, but there's no way I can make something of myself here. I got to go someplace else, anyplace. Maybe the Coast Guard...
...many places racial antagonism is sharpening rather than abating -- a process that politicians, both white and black, have at times exacerbated. Republican TV spots on the Willie Horton case in last year's presidential campaign tapped white fears. The upsurge of drug-related urban violence, says Democratic pollster Harrison Hickman, "has rekindled in people's minds the connection between blacks and violent crime." - Affirmative action has provoked a second-generation backlash, particularly among working-class whites. In combining the roles of protest leader and political candidate, Jesse Jackson stokes this fear with his demands for "economic justice...
Audience members echoed Holloway's enthusiasm. "They've really pulled themselves together," Hickman said. "They've improved 500 percent over the past year...