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THAT is how the politician hero of Hogan's Goat, a recent play about the 19th century Irish in Brooklyn, recalls the era when ward politics was one of the few ways in which the immigrant masses could dream of sharing power. The ethnic vote-the vote of "our kind"-has remained part of the American political vocabulary for a century. Big-city bosses operated on the assumption that they could deliver that vote to whatever candidate they chose-all they needed was a Christmas turkey, a memory for the names of the children, and a fluency...
Statistically, the ethnic concern is understandable. Some 34 million Americans, or 19%, are listed by the most recent census as of "foreign stock," which the Census Bureau defines as either foreign-born or with at least one foreign-born parent. Others have defined "ethnic" as any individual who differs from "the basic white Protestant Anglo-Saxon settlers by religion, language and culture." Since, of the total population, 65% come from non-Anglo-Saxon stock, this amounts to a lot of voters, most of them in the big cities. In New York, as the Rheingold-beer ads say, there are more...
Though the essence of the change lies in rising incomes, education, family life and culture, the most visible demonstration is found in election returns. To the dismay of the pros-mostly Democrats, since the Democrats have long counted the ethnic groups in their column-minorities in the recent elections picked and chose with as much stiff-necked individualism as any Mayflower Yankee...
...wide open, deserting Democrat Edward McCormack by the thousands to re-elect Italian Republican John Volpe, who had been a good and popular Governor. Volpe even took that oldest Irish stronghold of all, Boston, city of "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald and James Curley. In New York, the Democrats followed the ethnic book by put ting an Italian (Frank Sedita) on the ticket as attorney general, but Rockefeller handily carried the Italian vote...
...polls, to help elect Republican Senator John Tower, as a protest against the conservative Democratic candidate, Waggoner Carr. In Michigan, Governor George Romney carried Macomb County, a district full of prosperous second-generation Poles, by an easy 18,000-vote margin over Zolton Ferency, "the man with the ethnic name." Perhaps the most clear-cut demonstration came in Chicago's heavily Polish Eleventh District, which has been represented for years by a professional Pole, Representative Roman Pucinski. Pucinski is part owner of a Polish-language radio station, his mother has her own Polish program on another station...