Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Michael S. Dukakis in Massachusetts. In the South, a new breed of moderate Democrats ended a decade of growth by Republicans. In the Midwest, big Democratic victories for state offices made it definite that formerly overwhelmingly Republican bastions like Iowa are now two-party states and states like Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois are becoming Democratic strongholds...
Some of the election results made even the Democrats blink. In Wisconsin they took the state senate for the first time since 1893. In Illinois they control both houses for the first time in 36 years, in Ohio for the first time in 15 years. At times it seemed as though any Democrat could beat any Republican. In Illinois an obscure civil servant named Robert T. Lane defeated Jack Walker, a former speaker of the house. W. Robert Blair, the present speaker of the Illinois house and a man who had been mentioned as a gubernatorial candidate in 1976, went...
...Dust Bowl of the 1930s, the world's major agricultural areas have enjoyed an unparalleled record of beneficent weather for the past half-century. It has been "the most abnormal period in at least a thousand years," says Reid A. Bryson, director of the University of Wisconsin's Institute for Environmental Studies. Temperatures were surprisingly high, and the warmth fostered plant growth in normally well-watered areas, while some deserts shrank under the influence of regular rainfall...
...Wisconsin, Patrick Lucey...
Most full time workers who are migrants are single males. They actually make more money than residential farmworkers because their traveling enables them to work peak harvests all year long. A nationwide study by the Wisconsin Employment Service in 1970 found that full time migrant workers averaged $12,000 in annual wages...