Word: polls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent poll found Boston residents increasingly optimistic about race relations politicians are questioning the extent to which racism has fled the city known for some of the 1970s most violent racial confrontations...
Many politicians in the city attribute the poll's findings to the attitude of the administration of Mayor Raymond L. Flynn, but others say the change is due mainly to the good economic times in Boston and the fact that many whites live in isolated communities...
...results of the Boston Globe poll, released earlier this month, said that 41% of Boston residents felt race relations had improved, that 37% said they had remained the same, and that 16% said they had worsened...
...poll also found 42% of city residents in favor of bussing and 50% opposed, a change from a 1974 poll's figures of 29% in favor and 63% opposed to bussing...
...while nearly half of those polled said the race situation in Boston had improved over the last five years, the poll found that it was primarily whites who were optimistic, with 44% of the whites polled seeing improvements as compared to only 30% of the Blacks. Of those who felt the situation was worse, 23% were Black and 14% were white...