Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard offers no government courses which prepares one for politics in urban areas, such as the 20th Congressional District in Cleveland, Ohio where several former and current Harvard people are getting a baptism in realpolitik...
...district in which Celebrezze is running--and, unlike most of his opponents, the district in which he lives--is a striking case study of urban politics. It is extremely liberal on economic questions and extremely conservative on social issues. "The same people who foam at the mouth about busing and have every stereotypic ethnic concern you could name are, on economic issues...well, I wouldn't want to say they're socialist, but they come awfully close," Nixon said last month...
...Shaker Heights. The 20th's whiteness is tinged with the dirty grey of Cleveland's heavily industrialized flats; the Cuyahoga River, which cuts across the district, caught on fire several years ago because it was so heavily polluted with industrial waste. The population of this lower-middle-class urban stretch is predominantly of eastern European ancestry--Polish, German, Czech, Hungarian, plus some Irish and Italians--and roughly 75 per cent Catholic...
...Florida, Carter's share of the black vote was 70%; in North Carolina, 90%. Carter swept the black precincts in Chicago and other Illinois urban areas, and his only primary defeat-in Massachusetts-would have been far more crushing without his 40% share of the black vote in Boston, greater than that won by any other candidate. In both Florida and North Carolina, blacks had an added incentive to support Carter. His major opponent was George Wallace, whose 1960s cry of "segregation forever" had stamped him an implacable racist, despite his disclaimers. But in Massachusetts, blacks could choose from...
...returned to Argentina with him in 1973. In that year she agreed to run for the vice presidency when he urged her to join him in his successful bid for the presidency. Although she was a strong campaigner among the descamisados (shirtless ones), the urban poor who have been the core of the Peronist movement, she was woefully unprepared to lead her nation of 25 million when Juan died of a heart attack in July...