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Rent control is a prime bread and butter issue in Cambridge. The city's landlords are in a bind: The University and white-collar research and development firms are bringing in a lot of middle-and upper-middle-income families. If rent control were removed, these newcomers could bid up the price of housing and force out the lower-income groups. It is this kind of change in Cambridge's neighborhoods that Councilor Graham is fighting with all the supporters she can turn out at protest meetings...
...groups differ demographically. The classical conservatives are more apt to have college educations (23% v. 11% of the resentful group), professional or white-collar jobs (35% v. 19%), working wives (31% v. 22%), annual incomes of $15,000 or more (30% v. 12%) and live in the West (17% v. 6%) but not in the South...
...majority are young (median age: 24) white males. In general, they are poorly educated (32.5% never graduated from high school; only 9.2% from college) and, contrary to the national pattern, received considerably less education than their fathers, who, for the most part, work at blue-collar and low-level white-collar occupations...
...have gone to college (58% v. 64%), to be blue-collar workers (38% v. 42%), and live in the South (34% v. 40%). The Nixonites of last August who have since deserted the President are almost entirely under 35, have attended college, and hold white-collar jobs...
...their machismo. In a survey of the language patterns of 3,000 midwesterners, Psychologist Paul Cameron found that 24% of the vocabulary of factory and construction workers on the job consists of "dirty" words. It is hard, notes Cameron, to put together sentences with more swear words than that. White-collar professionals, he found, have only a 1% rating in the office and 3% to 4% at parties. This distinction does not apply to the nation's No. 1 white-collar professional. Proper at parties, he lets himself go in the highest office of the land...