Volume 36, Number 6 · April 13, 1989
Black vs. White in Chicago
By Thomas Byrne Edsall
If the South has become all but lost to the Democratic party in national elections, Chicago has become the battleground for the party's northern soul. Just as in the South, race defines the politics of voting in contests ranging from minor state senate seats to the presidency. In Chicago, the threatened exodus of white voters from the Democratic party has not been led, as it has in the South, by an upper-middle class no longer able to use the party to maintain its authority. It has been led by working-class whites, men and women who were once themselves, along with their parents, strongly committed to New Deal liberalism.
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