Word: blinkered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Galatia (pop. 1,023) sits alongside the two-lane tarmac of Highway 34 in Southern Illinois like hips on a snake. Barely. There is a cluster of neat single-story frame houses, a couple of eating places, a bank, a gas station and small supermarket. A lone yellow blinker slows traffic a little. But few outsiders ever stop, and that is fine with Galatians, who have better things to do than chat. They raise corn, graze cattle and dig coal for a living. "Until lately," drawls one miner, "two dogs crossing the road at the same time...
...should hope not." As I stopped at the blinker, I noticed that the car ahead had a KENNEDY? sign on it. It was the first bumper sticker I had ever seen with a question mark. "It's a problem of decades. The '80s just don't look very good. What the Democrats need...