Word: ruralization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...party has for decades been fundamentally split. The division has been partly ideological, but to an even greater extent cultural, regional and social. One branch has been dominated by a right-wing populist strand, predominantly Western, rural and Main Street, whose antecedents stretch back to the isolationists and McCarthyites. This wing has often vehemently opposed the G.O.P.'s so-called Eastern Establishment, whose members are associated with Wall Street and country clubs; their views tend to be more sympathetic to Big Business, internationalism and political pragmatism. The bitterness peaked at the 1964 G.O.P. convention, when the conservative followers...
Your report misses a central point. No matter how deprived the urban poor are, they are better off than the rural poor. It is essential to increase rural productivity through land reform and technology. Otherwise, attempts to improve our population centers will further widen the urban-rural gap and lead to even higher migration into cities, thus nullifying whatever improvements are made in those metropolitan areas...
Mexico City's problem is not primarily its high birth rate but a high rate of immigration from rural areas. The Communist Chinese have "solved" this problem by making it illegal for peasants to move to the cities. Shanghai may have no "squatters living in shacks," but there are hundreds of millions of peasants in hill and mountain areas where conditions are far worse than those encountered in a Mexico City barrio...
...racial fears and thus transform white nonvoters and Democrats into registered Republicans. In North Carolina (19% black electorate), says Elections Director Alex Brock, "Jesse Jackson began registration in the churches. But the Moral Majority picked up on it and may have surpassed him." In six months, G.O.P. registrations in rural Scotland County, N.C., increased from about 1,000 to almost 2,300. Lamarr Mooneyham, a Moral Majority official, says he has indeed been "fishing for conservatives in church waters." The white vote, however, is no solid bloc of fundamentalists, and some backlash seems possible. The Darden poll asked about...
...reminders that racism was still a fact of American life. Terry decided that this story should be told and that the blacks involved should tell it. He chose his narrators carefully: grunts, noncoms, officers, from all four branches of the armed services, from backgrounds both urban and rural. The composite that emerged after years of interviewing is a portrait not just of warfare and warriors but of beleaguered patriotism and pride...