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Portland Ranks 29,h Most Liberal City
Lags behind cities with minority populations
A r e c e n t n a tio n w id e s tu d y
show ed a direct correlation between
a c ity 's political leaning and its
racial makeup.
T he nonpartisan Bay A rea C en
ter for V oting Research ranked the
political ideologies o f every A m eri
can city w ith a population over
100,(XX), and found D etroit to be the
most liberal and Provo, Utah, to be
the m ost conservative.
Portland was ranked 29lh.
"T he great political divide in
A m erica today is not red vs. blue.
north vs. south, costal vs. interior
o r even rich vs. poor - it is now
clearly black vs. w hite," said Phil
Reiff, a B A C V R director.
The ranking for the city o f Rose
may be surprising to those who
assum e Portland to be a liberal
w onderland.
“There are segm ents o f the P ort
land com m unity that d o n 't share
the m ajority view. The liberals are
loud and proud, but there clearly is
a segm ent that keeps their co n ser
vative opinions to them selves but
lets it go in the voting booth,” said
Jason A lderm an, spokesm an for the
voting research group.
C ities w ith predom inantly large
A fric a n A m eric an p o p u la tio n s
ended up as the most liberal cities in
America, while the cities with the
la rg e s t C a u c a s ia n p o p u la tio n s
w ound up as the most conservative.
A survey o f incom e and ec o
nom ic status indicates that poorer
and less educated than average
regions also tend to vote for liberal
candidates at a higher rate than
their conservative counterparts.
"W h ile there are a few liberal
cities w ithout large A frican A m eri versely, the study found that the
can populations, these w ind up staunchest conservative cities are
b ein g the e x c e p tio n s . C o lle g e clustered in the South and interior
tow ns like Berkeley andC am bridge W est and have extrem ely low n um
have m odest black populations but bers o f A frican A m erican residents.
“D etroit and P rovo epitom ize
rem ain bastions o f upper m iddle-
class, white, intellectual liberalism . A m erica’s political, econom ic and
T hese liberal w hite com m unities, racial polarization,” said Janet Kim,
how ever, are m ore rem iniscent o f a BA C V R researcher. “ As the m ost
p e n g u in s c lu s te r in g to g e th e r conservative city in America, Provo
around a shrinking iceberg than o f is overw helm ingly w hite and so l
a vibrant and g row ing political idly m iddle class. T his is in stark
contrast to D etroit, w hich is im pov
m ovem ent,” R eiff said.
The list o f A m erica’s m ost liberal erished, black and the m ost liberal.”
G ary, lnd., a rust belt form er steel
cities is dom inated by cities with
large African American populations tow n, com es in as A m erica’s sec
that are concentrated in the N orth ond m ost liberal city, follow ed by
east, M idw est and C alifornia. C on- B erkeley, Calif, w hich ranks third.
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Textbook prices have been ris
ing an average o f 6 percent each
year since 1998, tw ice the rate o f
annual inflation, according to a new
report by the U nited State G overn
m ent A ccountability Office.
The study also found that text
books and supplies are a significant
college cost, making up 26 percent of
tuition and fees for a fulltime student
attending a 4-year public institution,
72 percent o f the cost for a fulltime
student attending a 2-year public
institution and 8 percent o f the cost
at a 4-year private institution.
The G AO particularly found the
practice o f’ “bundling’ ’ CD-ROMS and
workbooks to textbooks to be a signifi
cant factor in the why textbook prices
have increased so dramatically. The
report also cites a proliferation o f new
editions as another factor in textbook
price increases.
A cc o rd in g to a su rv ey c o n
ducted by the C alifornia Student
Public Interest Research G roup,
students spend an average o f $898
on textbooks each year.
Coretta Scott King Hospitalized
(A P) - C oretta Scott King w as
adm itted to a hospital for an u n
specified condition T uesday and
w as resting com fortably, a hospital
official said.
King, 78, the w idow o f slain civil
rights leader M artin L uther King
Jr., w ent to an em ergency room
T uesday m orning. Piedm ont H os
pital spokesw om an D iana L ew is
toldW X IA -T V .
L ew is d id n ’t elaborate on the
reason for the hospitalization.
King has canceled recent public
a p p e a ra n c e s , r a is in g c o n c e rn s
about the health o f the civil rights
matriarch.
At a cerem ony paying tribute to
Coretta Scott King
the King fam ily at the G eorgia State
C apitol on June 30, her son M artin
L uther King III said his m other w as
“doing w ell” and w as only abiding
by her d o cto r’s orders to lim it her
activities. He refused to give ad d i
tional details.
T he A labam a-born C oretta Scott
w as studying voice at the N ew
E ngland C onservatory o f M usic
w hen a friend introduced her to
K ing, a young B aptist m inister
w orking tow ard a Ph.D. at Boston
U niversity. T hey m arried in 1953.
They had fourchildren, and she was
a supportive lieutenant to her husband
during the most tumultuous days of
the American civil rights movement.
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(A P) - N ation o f Islam leader
Louis Farrakhan said Mexican Presi
dent V icente Fox w as right to say
that M exican im m igrants take jo b s
“that not even blacks w ant.”
A lthough Fox w as sharply criti
cized for his rem arks by som e black
leaders, Farrakhan said Sunday that
blacks do not w ant to go to farm s
and pick fm it because they already
“picked enough cotton.”
Rev. Al Sharpton (from left), U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., and
“Why are you so foolishly sensitive Nation o f Islam leader Louis Farrakhan at Monday's funeral o f
when somebody is telling you the Ebony and Jet magazine publisher John H. Johson. (AP photo)
truth?” he asked the crowd at Mercy
C ivil rights leaders including said he w as com m enting on the
Memorial Baptist Church. He said Jesse Jack so n and the Rev. Al contributions that M exicans m ake
blacks and Latinos should form an Sharpton have called on Fox to to the U nited States, and did not
alliance to correct differences and ani
apologize for the rem ark. Fox has m ean any o ltense.
mosity between the two communities.
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