Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHILE DISILLUSIONED Hicks campaign workers drifted slowly out of Moseley's-on-the-Charles early Wednesday morning. Louise Day Hicks and a small group of campaign strategists set by themselves at the congresswoman's home. As returns from the suburban towns trickled in it became apparent that Independent Democrat Joe Moskley would be looking for Washington lodgings next January...
...political playbook, as the congresswoman stuck closely to the game plan she used in 1970 to get elected. She shied away from large political gatherings, greeting her supporters instead at informal open houses. But the Hicks machine found it difficult to transplant these informal chats into the suburban neighborhoods added to the 9th in the 1971 redistricting. On Election Night, the suburbs rejected the "old" politics...
...kind of low key campaigning worked for Hicks two years ago when she was elected to her first term but politics in the 9th changed considerably this year in the wake of the drastic redistricting. The gerrymandering removed some of Hicks's favorite tea spots and substituted more liberal suburban voters who drink mostly cockrails...
State-Senator Bob Cawley, hoping to defeat Hicks in the 1972 Democratic primary race for Congress, led a major redistricting move in 1971 which cut away three Dorchester wards--major Hicks strongholds--from the 9th and added seven upper middle class suburban towns to the district...
Before the redistricting, a map of the 9th District looked like a long, irregular polygon. Now it doesn't look like much of anything except a classic case of gerrymandering. The "new 9th" is an irrational district which combines urban with suburban problems and wealthy property towners with poverty line constituents...