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More mundane than those demonstrations, but ultimately more fruitful, may be the timeconsuming, door-to-door work of men like Willie Velasquez. A former activist with La Raza Unida (The United Race), a chicano social and political movement founded in the late '60s, Velasquez, 34, now heads the San Antonio-based Southwest Voter Registration Education Project. Says he: "Every immigrant group that's come to this country has gotten involved in the political process as a major part of their advancement. We keep giving the same message: political participation is indispensable to any minority group." Last year the project registered...
...town fathers contended that they had no choice, since more than 67% of the residents are below the poverty level. But the decision was also in keeping with the town's combative political reputation. The birthplace of the militant Mexican-American La Raza Unida (the United Race) Party, Crystal City has stressed racial solidarity at the expense of economic growth. As taxes soared, businesses have fled...
Coles's preoccupation with economic problems ignores the rich vitality of Chicano culture and the stubborn optimism of the people, which survive stubborn optimism of the people, which survive despite all the injustices dealt them. He also neglects to mention the growing strength of the Raza Unida political party. But then Coles, like King, is more intent on demonstrating his moral purity than on understanding his subject, and the Chicanos get lost in the shuffle...
...show mid-western Republican influences while East Texas is heavy Wallace country; Southwest Texas is a land of rugged individualists who tend to vote very conservatively. Much of the vote in these areas will probably go to Nixon. South Texas, however, has a large Mexican-American population. Although LaRaza Unida Party has not endorsed McGovern, the South Dakotan can still count on carrying the Rio Grande Valley counties: LaRaza does not yet control a large enough portion of the votes. "What LaRaza does is it cuts down on that enthusiasm," Farenthold said recently. "The key would be for Ted Kennedy...
...Italy and Canada, make up about 25% of the population. There are 9,104,406 Californians registered to vote in the June 6 primary; 56.4% are Democrats, 37.3% Republicans, and the remaining 6.3% are independents or members of parties such as Peace and Freedom, American Independent and La Raza Unida. Two TIME correspondents have been traveling with the two chief candidates since the start of the campaign, Hays Corey with Hubert Humphrey and Dean Fischer with George McGovern. Their reports...