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...splintering of the classic New Deal Democrat coalition. Blue-collar union guys (like Archie) had depended on FDR and organized labor to secure them contracts, provide Social Security, look after their comfort: in short, to protect them and keep their world stable. Social justice to Archie was a pot roast on their table and an evening sit-down in his favorite chair. He was Nixon's "silent majority" personified; he was a Reagan Democrat years before anyone knew they existed...
...also bicultural. He speaks Spanish on the factory floor in Mexico but yells in English at his kids' T-ball games. He knows when to offer a bribe in Mexico (to a traffic cop) and when not to (during an environmental inspection). He prefers chile rellenos to pot roast, gets his allergy medicine in Mexico but his MRI in the U.S. He has a two-sided wallet for pesos and dollars and would practically kill for a cell phone that works in both countries. "We don't know who we are," laughs John Castany, president of the Reynosa Maquiladora Association...
...boyhood in Hsi-chuang, a village 40 min. from Tainan, Taiwan's fourth largest city. This is the Taiwanese heartland, where kids still play marbles with pits of the dragon-eye fruit the way Chen did as a boy. They still go swimming in the creek and roast water chestnuts on charcoal braziers. His family's red-roofed Taiwanese house consisted of four rooms built around a courtyard and an open hearth. They used chalk to write on the charcoal-stained walls how much they owed neighbors and merchants. His father was a day laborer...
...This is the Taiwanese heartland, where kids still play marbles with pits of dragon eye fruit the way Chen did when he was a boy. They still go swimming in the creek and roast water chestnuts on charcoal braziers. When Chen was growing up here during the 1950s, Taiwan was still struggling for survival; today's grandiose notion of cultural identity was a distant luxury. While the newly arrived leaders of the Kuomintang, freshly landed from the mainland, were building their capital in Taipei, for the native Taiwanese, descendants mostly of Fujian and Guangdong natives who settled during the 17th...
...barren. Mad cow, foot-and-mouth and a host of unpalatable soy substitutes have left Type A red-meat lovers forlorn in the produce aisle, desperately trying to assemble a meal from legumes and kasha. Now, resourceful amateur butchers around the globe are proffering alternatives to the traditional Sunday roast. In Bucharest last week, public authorities plastered the city with posters telling consumers how to spot the difference between a leg of lamb and a leg of dog. (Check for paws...