Word: northerns
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Gains & Losses. The committee discovered that many of the state's industries, such as iron ore mining and processing, the economic backbone of northern Minnesota, now have little or no tariff protection. Others, like the thriving apparel industry, specialize in products geared to ever-changing demands on the part of the U.S. consumer; because of their greater familiarity with the market, U.S. firms would continue to have an advantage over foreign competitors. All in all, tariff reduction would make little direct difference to 52 Minnesota industries employing 66% of the state's mining and manufacturing workers...
...Gresham keeps a slave called Bodoc whom he won in a crap game. Symbolically, Book is impotent, apparently the result of one of those odd Southern boyhood experiences (with a Negro woman "musty like wild grapes") that suggest Dr. Kinsey was wasting his time among the modest aberrations of Northern folk...
...lesson of Minnesota in the minds of many of the Stevenson supporters and Southern conservatives is that the coalition of northern moderates and southern conservatives that won the nomination for Stevenson in 1952 must be revived or the Harriman-Kefauver coalition will win this time...
...political strain created by this basic moral and social conflict is felt most keenly in the Democratic Party. In New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois and other Northern states, at least 70% of the Negro vote in recent years has been Democratic and has been necessary for Democratic victory. Northern Democrats cannot abandon their pro-civil rights position, nor do their leaders wish...
...South's Negroes, despite their economic progress, have been moving north for 40 years; today 2,500 Negroes arrive in Chicago every month. This exodus from the South, an ultimately healthy process, is checked by the wretched conditions under which many Negroes live in Northern cities. The contribution of the North and West to the greatest internal problem facing the nation is not to give in to the Eastlands, nor to try to match them in rancor. It is to hasten the progress of Negroes outside the South, while pressing for all "deliberate speed" in the enforcement...