Word: northern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opportunist and part high-minded booster. Like a majority of adult Angelenos, he comes from "back East"-anywhere east of the Sierras. He is defensive about California's virtues and suspicious of condescending Easterners. Like Los Angeles itself, which has long put up with the patronizing attitude of northern neighbor San Francisco, he seems to take pleasure in playing the underdog even when he knows that he is top dog. During his career, he has sprawled over the political landscape in much the way that his city has sprawled over the countryside. And, as last week's hearing...
...nation's giant banking, commercial and industrial corporations. In its expensive northern suburbs, artistically wrought steel burglar bars cover the windows of elegant homes, where watchdogs growl on the door mats and swimming pools sparkle on the spacious grounds. Surrounding the city, but separated from it by a green band of no man's land, are African townships where hundreds of thousands of blacks live in government-built mass housing units...
...local budgets in the last ten years -- and doubts about the wisdom of government spending are due largely to the inflation caused by the war in Vietnam. For the first time, the Aid to Dependent Children program is becoming a political issue, and a rallying cry for those in northern cities who feel compelled to cloak their casual bigotry with cries of "fiscal excess." Furthermore, the victory of Jim Johnson, a racist with Goldwaterite notions about the role of government in American life, over a moderate in the Democratic primary for governor of Arkansas demonstrated that the voters opposed...
...manipulating the issues, they may be able to make inroads into normally Democratic blocs. Ethnic minorities in the cities and even distrinaire liberals in the suburbs are agitated over what they consider the tendency of disadvantaged urban Negroes to resort to violence and rioting. That's why only 25 northern Democrats voted against anti-riot legislation proposed by a Florida G.O.P. Congressman. Many who support the Vietnam war, yet oppose escalating food prices, are willing to see reduced government spending take the form of cuts in the poverty program -- then they have warned the increasingly militant Negro minority...
Carmichael is quite explicit when he addresses the Northern, white liberals: "we don't want you working in our ghettos one summer and going to Europe the next summer, but if you really are sincere about helping Negroes in America, then try to reform some of the white supremacists in your own neighborhood." Carmichael explains that white civil rights workers must be expelled from work in Negro ghettos because they perpetuate the myth that the Negroes can't do anything for themselves...