Word: rural
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More Help than Hurt. Politically, Dirksen's distaste for the reapportionment ruling is puzzling, since it has helped Republicans more than it has hurt them. Initially, political scientists thought that the state legislatures would see a swift, drastic transfer of power from rural areas to the predominantly Democratic inner cities. Power has in deed flowed away from rural representatives-but to suburbia, where political loyalties are still in flux and Republicans are more often elected than Democrats...
Them v.. Us. In the state legislatures, most rural representatives feared that reapportionment would mean an influx of city slickers who would, as one Illinois Representative put it, "run roughshod over downstate wishes." What has saved downstate Illinois-and upstate New York, and eastern Washington, and western Tennessee, as well-from the city boys has been the suburban influence...
...SPORT AND A PASTIME, by James Salter. While his characters fall in love, the author has a love affair of his own with rural France. A fine and beautifully written novel...
...Road. In rural England, a husband and wife gaze out of their sports car at a bride and groom emerging from a church. She sighs: "They don't look very happy." He snaps: "Why should they? They just got married...
Sanders said he believed that Georgia cities on the whole have genuinely accepted de-segregation laws. "It is still a fact of life that tokenism exists in rural areas and de facto segregation remains in the cities ... I doubt if you're going to change this in the near future...