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Daniel P. Moynihan, professor of Education, last night told an audience at Temple Mishkan Tefila in Newton that ethnicity continues to be a factor in presidential campaigns...
Despite liberal expectations that diverse ethnic groups would eventually become homogeneous, the U.S. government now requires institutions to report "how many Aleuts and Malays they have on their staff," Moynihan said...
...Moynihan said that ethnicity is still a tradition in the United States, adding that it is "the dirty little secret of democratic politicians just as sex was the dirty little secret of the Victorians...
...Moynihan discussed the evolution of the Democratic party, saying that although it started as a party which represented ethnic homogeneity, by the 1960's it was clear that it no longer represented diverse groups...
...said the party's greatest success came during Roosevelt's administration, when it formed a coalition between ethnic groups based primarily on similar social class. However, antagonisms began to develop within the party as class and ethnic group interests began to diverge, Moynihan said...