Word: whitely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Says Graduate School of Education ProfessorNathan Glazer, "It is a breakthrough. It certainlymeans that a Black candidate who wants to reachout to a white electorate and win can do that...
Dinkins, who reaped 51 percent of the vote withmore than 90 percent of the precincts reporting,gathered about 30 percent of the white vote andabout 80 percent of the Hispanic vote, accordingto network exit polls...
Wilder, too, had to gain "30 to 40 percent ofthe white vote" in order to win, according Glazerand other political observers...
Democrat John Daniels was elected mayor of NewHaven, becoming the first Black mayor of hismajority-white city. And Mayor Coleman Young ofDetroit, also Black, led in his bid for a fifthterm...
Cleveland picked a new Black mayor, with stateSen. Michael R. White leading City CouncilPresident George Forbes in a particularly bitterrace. Forbes called his rival a "slumlord." Whitesaid his opponent was a "master of sleaze...