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...What he apparently failed to consider," said Harris, "was that the elements of the old coalition, which constituted some 60% of the electorate during F.D.R.'s days, now make up only 43% of the voters. At the same time, the groups that Ford appealed to-college graduates, suburbanites, white-collar workers-have been growing in numbers...
...Deal coalition: union members, big-city residents, the young, low-income earners, blacks, Jews, Southerners (though his own late polls showed some slippage there). Only the Catholic vote was in serious doubt. Ford, by contrast, had similarly gained a solid lead among independent voters, the college-educated, suburbanites, white-collar workers, professional and managerial types. Once that breakdown would have meant a Democratic victory; no longer. According to Harris, where the old coalition accounted for just over 60% of the potential voters when F.D.R. rode it to victory in 1936, it accounts for only 43% now; the pro-Ford groups...
Concomittantly, there has been continuous growth in the white-collar sectors of the economy. These voters, so far unorganized into unions, tend to be more concerned about inflation than they are about unemployment and social welfare programs...
...pieced together the facts of an intricate $20 mil lion Medicaid scheme and indicted 16 people in Chicago two weeks ago. By last week six of them had pleaded guilty, and one indicted doctor had committed suicide. The case is the latest example of the fastest-growing form of white-collar crime: ripping off Uncle Sam's multibillion-dollar social-welfare programs. But with the Chicago indictments, Uncle also served notice that he is finding new ways to strike back...
...cities above the Mason-Dixon line struggle with decay and impoverishment; Houston, Dallas and Atlanta are large-scale success stories. The tide of migration is reversing; the South is now receiving white-collar workers, middle management and an intellectual elite from the North...