Word: hispanicized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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No Democrat has ever won the White House without winning Texas, and Mondale lost it by 28 points. He made an early push in the Lone-Star State, staging an impressive registration drive that claimed half a million new voters. But the Republicans countered, adding 400,000 to their rolls...
Plenty of factions are yelling already. The party has become Balkanized into a collection of interest groups, each pushing its parochial agenda singlemindedly. Hispanic organizations oppose the Simp-son-Mazzoli immigration bill? Then so does the Democratic Party. Unions want to limit imports of foreign automobiles? Then so does the...
I remember as the most vivid of the episodes of the long trail of 1984 the redefinition of the Democratic Party at its convention in San Francisco. The faces and feel were so completely different that only by effort could I remember the Democratic conventions of the '50s, dominated...
As the 40-odd students-mostly members of the American Indian, Asian, Black, and Hispanic student groups that organized the event-walked in a circle, carrying placards and chanting, a crowd of two dozen students and a few administrators gathered to watch.
All this is very odd, though, given that it is only two years since the governor took office after campaigning vigorously on a liberal platform, letting the public know that he would play the fitting role as the nation's only Hispanic governor if elected. It was Anaya too who...