Word: yankeetown
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...candidates . . . narrow and the choice not easy." but concluded: "With Nixon and Lodge in charge of U.S. world policy we shall feel both safer and more hopeful." ¶ Another magazine for Nixon: Farm Journal; for Kennedy, Harper's. ¶The residents of rival Crackertown (pop. 463) and Yankeetown (pop. 700), Fla., two miles apart in northwest Florida's Levy County, whooped up their own straw vote for President. Although the combined voter registration is 97% Democratic, Crackertown (51% native-born Floridians) went 52 to 47 for Kennedy, while Yankeetown (80% transplanted) voted 104 to 87 for Nixon...
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