Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...local elections throughout Britain last week, voters gave the Conservative Party the worst drubbing it has suffered in all its twelve years in office. Wiping out three straight years of Tory gains in rural and municipal contests, the elections cost the Conservatives a nationwide total of 571 seats and control of 37 towns. The Labor Party won 372 seats, capturing a dozen big cities and such key London boroughs as Wandsworth, the city's biggest constituency, and all of London south of the Thames. The biggest net gain was scored by the resurgent Liberals, who fought 1,500 seats...
Example: Fulton County (Atlanta), with 556,326 inhabitants, had only three times as many unit votes as tiny Echols County (pop. 1,876); thus, one Echols voter was roughly the equivalent of 100 Fulton voters. By winning pluralities (not necessarily majorities) in a lot of small rural counties, a politician could win the Democratic nomination for Governor with a minority of the statewide popular vote. The elder Talmadge did that in 1946 with 43% of the popular vote, and Marvin Griffin did it in 1954 with only...
Scarcely more than an hour after the Supreme Court handed down its decision, an Atlanta citizens' committee filed suit in a federal court in Atlanta to have the county unit system declared unconstitutional. To ward off this new threat, the rural-dominated state legislature met in special session and hastily revised the county unit system, providing additional unit votes for the most populous counties...
Standing in Judgment? Most of the storefront congregations are made up of white migrants from rural areas, who moved first to the city in search of factory jobs, and then to the suburbs after learning that they could buy a house on terms there for less than they paid for tenement rents. But some fundamentalist ministers claim that their young congregations include doctors, bankers and other professional men who have become dissatisfied with traditional Protestantism. "All the people have to be reached,'' says James Freeman, pastor of the Church of God. Mountain Assembly, in the Cincinnati suburb...
...such a program could not be adopted by Radcliffe, Mrs. Bunting cautioned, because of the confusion, size, and complexity of urban life. In a rural setting, academic maturity would be the primary measure of a girl's success. She said that Vassar and Bennington have ideal conditions...