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Illinois, stereotyped by many as the buckle on the corn belt, in reality boasts an ethnic, economic, and political diversity which make it something of an American in miniature. Chicago, which has nearly as many Negroes as Alabama and more Poles than any city except War-saw, blends sophistication and rawness as starkly as any urban center in the East or Far West. Shady suburbs surround the "crossroads of the nation" in a long are of affluence. In mid-state, a broad swathe of black top-soil has nurtured corn and conservatism for nearly a century and a half...
...simple conviction of its immigrant constituents that the party of the Yankee mill owner-oppressor should be made to suffer. Little else in the way of ideology, binds together the party's members, who range from Goldwater supporters to former ADA chairmen. The Party is basically a combination of ethnic alliances, traditional hatreds and personal feuds followed by hypocrital gestures for the sake of party harmony...
Unlike Bellotti, however, he had no feel for the ethnic interests and managed to bungle the business whenever it came up. His wife Toni antagonized the Irish when she criticized the Capital washerwomen, and he mortified the Puritans among the Yankees when he embraced the now indicated "Iron Duke of Ludlow," House Speaker Thompson, only shortly after calling for his removal. He allowed former Senate President John E. Powers, a good Irish Catholic, to make a statement on his behalf that accused Bellotti of trying to take over the party, a statement that only infuriated the Italians and appalled...
...likely, though, that the present situation can last forever. The rising importance of economic influences within the various ethnic groups will tend to split them up and assimilate them, and the day will come when a Greek can run for office outside Lowell, and an Irishman can win in the North End. In the meantime, though, the best hope for the Democratic Party and the state lies with the Kennedy's and their allies. There is much truth to the charge that they ran out on the state in 1960, but the fact is that ever since John Kennedy began...
There will probably never be a return to the days of a century ago when the dominant Republicans could offer a ticket so ignorant of ethnic feeling and geographical distribution, but the Commonwealth, one hopes, will tire of its simple pleasures of sensational disclosures of corruption and endless indictments, and of voting for the end of a candidate's name. However, one suspects it wouldn't have it any other...