Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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AFFLUENT SETTLED. This type of Suburb is not growing so rapidly as the Bedroom. It is more self-sufficient, even less of a dormitory for the central city. Here-the town of Fairfield, Conn., for example, or Huntington, L.I., or Arlington, Va.-the incomes may not be quite so high and there are slightly fewer homeowners. Protestants barely outnumber Catholics, though together they are a massive majority; only 6% are Jewish, double the proportion for Affluent Bedroom suburbs but hardly a significant minority. Here Nixon won-but only by 47% to 40%. The boredom quotient is higher; nearly half think...
...majority. Residents register Democratic overwhelmingly, 63% to 28%, and generally vote that way as well. But even here, Nixon squeaked out a 1 % margin three years ago. Understandably, those who live in Low-Income Stagnant communities say they enjoy their lives less than Americans in other types of suburb. They are most often bored (25%) and most likely to feel that they and their neighbors are only biding time until they can afford to move (21%). Even so, 39% rate their community as above average; only 10% consider it below average...
CRIME. When asked to list the problems of their suburb, only 12% volunteered that crime is a major concern. Questioned more directly, however, 43% admitted that crime is on the increase in their community and 32% said they do not feel it is safe to walk around at night. (That proportion rises to 46% among women and 57% among nonwhites, who live in poorer neighborhoods just as they do in the city.) One out of four said that places they once visited at night are now off limits because they are not safe. Over 90% agree that "government...
...improvements would bring in a lot of riffraff from Kansas City." "It's a bodacious street," allows Mayor V.M. ("Doc") Dostal. After their day's work in K.C., the people of Leawood obviously want nothing more than to come home to their handsome houses in their manicured suburb and slam the door. They might as well put up a sign reading PRIVATE-KEEP...
There are other threats to the community. Because the suburb is so rigidly residential, it has no industrial tax base: one result is inadequate public services, including a wretched sewer system that would cost at least $1,000,000 to modernize. In a heavy rain the sewers back up into the prosperous residents' basements. In addition, there is what Mrs. Margaret Jordan, lawyer and city councilwoman, calls "the specter of Tomahawk Creek Reservoir"-a proposed federal flood-control project that would create recreational facilities open to nonresidents. Another city council member puts the dilemma of Leawood's future...