Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once the election has been thrown into the legislature, the legislators may support either candidate they wish -- no matter how the people of their district voted. In this case, the overwhelmingly rural-Democratic Georgia legislature will undoubtedly support Maddox, even though Callaway had a slight plurality in the general election...
...remains to be seen whether the Georgia decision will mean a slackening of the effort to destroy the power of malapportioned, rural-dominated state governments. The Court has already thrown out Georgia's county unit system, which assigned counties of wildly disproportionate population the same weight in deciding a state-wide election, and effectively gave the state's farm areas many times the political power of the more populous urban centers...
Most new towns are built in rural counties whose officials are not used to handling the decisions and red tape that go along with setting up a town for hundreds of thousands of people. Developers must almost always fight for zoning changes. Counties sometimes cannot build schools fast enough to accommodate the influx of people. There are always disputes about who should pay for access roads to the new city. For example, a four-lane highway runs through Reston linking Dulles Airport and Washington. But no one can get on or off at Reston. The Federal government insists that...
...conviction that neither major party should be exclusively conservative or liberal, Romney warned: "Dogmatic ideological parties tend to splinter the political and social fabric of a nation." The real challenge for the G.O.P. "lies in the expansion of voter support in all parts of the country, urban or rural, North or South, colored or white. Without common dedication to this fundamental, our rehash of 1964 positions may become of interest only to the historians of defunct political institutions." Nevertheless, Romney complained, the Goldwater campaign "never effectively deviated from its Southern-rural-white orientation...
...Rural areas, always strong for the Machine, no longer have the strength they used to. Now, most of Virginia's voters live in cities and suburbs--before 1960 most voters were rural. 65 per cent of the Old Dominion's population lives in the urban corridor which slashes diagonally across the state from the suburbs of Washington, D.C., on south through Fredericksburg to Richmond, and then down into the densely-populated complex around the Navy installations at Norfolk. At the same time that the Byrd Organization has trouble in this area, its traditional margins in Southside have been severely...