Word: italianization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Today the North End is a melange of different histories: the signs on the restaurants bespeak its more recent Italian heritage, while the street names are reminiscent of its colonial beginnings. Anyone who read "Johnny Tremain" when he was little, or had colonial history rammed down his throat, will appreciate the locale...
After the turn of the last century, the different ethnic populations stabilized and became primarily Italian, as the Jewish and Irish people who had previously lived in the area moved out to the surrounding suburbs and to other areas of Boston. "They wanted a house and a yard," says Nina R. Meyer, director of Boston's Historic Neighborhood Foundation, which runs discovery programs about the neighborhood. "It was just the American Dream...you moved...
While Dukakis appeared to have the parade crowd on his side, Bush received the endorsement of Il Progresso, the nation's largest Italian language daily newspaper...
Bush supporters passed out copies of the newspaper which said, "The traditional values of Italian-Americans can be found in the electoral program of Vice President Bush...
...survivors" of the trend to foreign ownership in the auto-parts industry, he said to workers at the Moog Automotive Co.--which has been owned since 1977 by a New York-based holding company controlled by an Italian family. Aides said Dukakis was unaware of the ownership of the company...