Word: northern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supporters of the bill said that there'd be a net gain of jobs, because bottlers would have to move into the state to produce returnable bottles. This argument didn't convince the voters of cities such as Lowell, a mill town in northern Massachusetts, who rejected the proposal...
That is not to say that the efforts of Northern black political leaders did not supremely complement the work of the Southern organization headed by Rep. Andrew Young (D-Ga.). In Roxbury, a Carter aide said last night, there were two precincts where Ford received no votes at all. In New York State Carter's black vote was about 92 per cent; in Detroit an estimated 93 per cent. And Carter carried Pennsylvania, critical for his chances, mainly through the high voter turnout in black North Philadelphia...
There was also in key Northern states like New York the partial return of urban ethnic and Catholic voters after the defection over McGovern. The heavily Catholic Queens borough of New York City gave Carter a margin 10 per cent greater than Humphrey received in 1968. The South Side of Milwaukee was largely responsible for Carter's surprising win in Wisconsin; the mainly Polish, Lithuanian and South Slav voters of that area gave him a vote upwards of 55 per cent...
...getting the right type of legislator for 1976," Mason says. Mason objects to Drinan's voting record on defense appropriations, claiming that Drinan has voted against "every single defense budget since he's been in Congress. And now, when the Army is thinking about closing Ft. Devens in the northern part of the district, Mason says that Drinan's fight to keep the base open is "hypocritical and lacks credibility...
There have been several plans to build oil refineries in Southern New Hampshire and Northern Massachusetts, but they have all been dropped--usually due to local opposition...