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White and working-class
While losing White ethnic, working-class voters, Lindsay was able to win with support from three distinct groups.
It was composed of persons whom were predominantly Roman Catholic, working-class, heterosexual, and white — essentially, the same demographic in the city who felt sympathy for White.
After the Second World War, thousands of migrants from both the Caribbean and the Indian subcontinent settled in the mill towns to fill the labour shortage in the industry ; they often moved to the traditional working-class areas whilst the White working-class moved out to the newly built estates after the war.
White women wanted women of color and working-class women to become a part of the women ’ s movement over struggling with their men ( working-class, poor, and men of color ) against class oppression and racism in the Civil Rights Movement.

White and Northerners
White Northerners accepted that the Civil War was over and that Southern whites posed no threat to the nation.
In the South Black Freedmen and White Southerners with Republican sympathies joined forces with Northerners who had moved south ( called " Carpetbaggers " by their southern opponents ) to implement the policies of the Republican party.
It became a place for many Southerners and Northerners alike to vacation, and the setting for many famous post-war reconciliations, including the White Sulphur Manifesto, which was the only political position issued by Robert E. Lee after the Civil War, that advocated the merging of the two societies.

White and could
She read everything else she could get her hands on, including an article ( she thinks it was in the Atlantic Monthly ) by Mark Twain on `` White Slavery ''.
The White House had chewing gum until it could chew no more, and every Christmas, Mr. Wrigley sent the President a check for $100, to be divided among all the help.
Mr. Kennedy, Mr. White believes, `` had mastered politics on so many different levels that no other American could match him ''.
On May 19, 1993, Clinton fired seven employees of the White House Travel Office, causing a controversy even though the Travel Office staff served at the pleasure of the President, who could dismiss them without cause.
With the departure and the completion of the new White Wing ( fronting Montague Street ) in 1884, more space was available for antiquities and ethnography and the library could further expand.
Rumor was the Cubs could hold home games across town at Comiskey Park, home of the American League's Chicago White Sox.
Democratic party leaders saw the Republicans ' choice as an opportunity to take back the White House for the first time since 1856 if the right candidate could be found.
But in tests the White Hawk could barely top the record breaking speed of Bell's 1919 HD-4.
He made peace with the church after the disputes of his brother's reign and the struggles with Anselm over the English investiture controversy ( 1103 – 07 ), but he could not smooth out his succession after the disastrous loss of his eldest son William in the wreck of the White Ship.
American delegate Harry Dexter White foresaw an IMF that functioned more like a bank, making sure that borrowing states could repay their debts on time.
They cited the successes of the newly formed ( 15 January 1918 ) voluntary Red Army against Polish forces of Gen. Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki in Belarus, White forces in the Don region, and newly independent Ukrainian forces as proof that the Red Army could repel German forces, especially if propaganda and asymmetrical warfare were used.
Foreign heads of state and dignitaries who visited the White House often asked if they could also visit Pickfair, the couple's mansion in Beverly Hills.
One critic charged that presidents could appoint a " virtual army of ' czars ' – each wholly unaccountable to Congress yet tasked with spearheading major policy efforts for the White House.
In 1801 the Upper House moved into the larger White Chamber, which had formerly housed the Court of Requests ; the expansion of the Peerage by King George III during the 18th century, along with the imminent Act of Union with Ireland, necessitated the move as the original chamber could not accommodate the increased number of peers.
* 1885 – Rock Springs massacre: in Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 White miners, who are struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers killing 28, wounding 15 and forcing several hundred more out of town.
The Supreme Court in Texas v White, held secession could occur " through revolution, or through consent of the States.
When he and other people marched in front of the White House, the State Department and Independence Hall only five years earlier, their objective was to look as if they could work for the U. S. government.
Babcock had direct access to Grant at the White House and had tremendous influence over who could see the President.
After the close 1844 contest, the Democratic advantage widened and the Whigs could win the White House only if the Democrats split.
As a result of increased security regarding air traffic in the capital, the White House was evacuated in 2005 before an unauthorized aircraft could approach the grounds.
President Harding became the first president to have a radio in his office, when on February 8, 1922, he had a radio set installed in the White House, so that he could listen to news and music, as his schedule permitted.
During the winter, the Secret Service would paint golf balls with black paint so Wilson could hit them around in the snow on the White House lawn.
White came to rely so much on older material that he could film the " new " shorts in a single day.
In 2012, physicist Harold White and collaborators announced that modifying the geometry of exotic matter could reduce the mass-energy requirements for a macroscopic space ship from the equivalent of the planet Jupiter to around one metric tonne, and stated their intent to perform small-scale experiments in constructing warp fields.
The only two persons who could be identified as the brothers were John ( who was an adviser of the Duchy and a lawyer ) and Jakob ( known as Magister, so probably a doctor ), sons of one Goćwina, who was a doctor in the court of Henry III the White.

White and identify
The White House has said Saudi Arabia provided information that helped identify the threat, while the UK's Daily Telegraph reported that an MI6 officer responsible for Yemen had received a tip-off.
With the increasingly racially-divisive politics that have followed the election of the PLP government, as well as the decades of increasing costs-of-living, the exclusion of unskilled workers from jobs in the white collar international business sector that has come to dominate Bermuda's economy, and the global economic downturn, all of which many Black Bermudians perceive as hitting them hardest, there is little sentiment today amongst people who have long been obliged to think of themselves as Black, in opposition to being White, to identify even partly with their European ancestry.
Despite these concerns, small numbers of Black Bermudians have chosen to describe themselves on census returns as mixed-racial, and the Native American demographic, which had disappeared for centuries, is slowly re-emerging, as more Bermudians-especially on St. David's Island-choose to identify to some degree, if not exclusively, with their Native American ancestry ( although many may feel that, in an increasingly polarised climate, this is a safer option than identifying themselves as in any way White, or European ).
In the 2000 Census, 5. 7 % of the people in Bennett County identified as mixed-race Native American-European American ( more Lakota socially identify as having mixed-race ancestry ) This is the highest percentage of any county within US boundaries, except northeastern Oklahoma and White Earth Indian Reservation in northwestern Minnesota.
Per the 2000 U. S. Census, a plurality of 47. 3 % of Mexican Americans self identify as being of White race, closely followed by Mexican Americans who self identify as " Some other race ", usually Mestizo ( Native American / European ) with 45. 5 %.<.
* From 1970 to 1980, there was a dramatic population increase of Other Race in the census, reflecting the addition of a question on Hispanic origin to the 100-percent questionnaire, an increased propensity for Hispanics to NOT identify themselves as White, and a change in editing procedures to accept reports of " Other race " for respondents who wrote in Hispanic entries such as Mexican, Cuban, or Puerto Rican.
Tim D. White of the University of California also challenged the findings, asking, " How can practitioners in this field possibly expect to be able to accurately identify fossil species based upon a few teeth, jaws, and lower faces in light of what we know about the great variation found among different individuals in a single living species?
Mr. White was required to witness and identify the body, which had been mutilated by the accident and then buried for more than a week.
Upon her return home, White House staffer Charles Colson sent a memo to the President reading in part, " Mrs. Nixon has now broken through where we have failed ... People — men and women — identify with her, and in return with you.
The White House Fellows Program office processes the applications and former Fellows screen the applications to identify the most promising candidates.
White matter connectivity between the frontal and posterior brain regions are critical in learning to identify patterns in language.
He identified four assassins: Louise Hathcock's former boyfriend, Carl Douglas " Towhead " White, George McGann, Gary McDaniel, and Kirksey Nix ; but he later changed his story as to who the assassins were when he couldn't identify them from pictures and in person.
A Popular Account of All The Species Found In America North Of The Equator, With Keys For Ready Identification, Life Histories And Methods of Capture – Jordan and Evermann ( 1908 ) they identify all the following as panfish in some form or another: Yellow Perch, Candlefish, Balaos, Sand Launces, Rock Bass, Bullheads, Minnows, Rocky Mountain Whitefish, Sand Rollers, Crappie, Yellow Bass, White Bass, Croaker and of course most of the common small sunfishes such as bluegill and redear sunfish.
John Carter himself is white-skinned, so that Barsoomians sometimes identify him with their own surviving White race, known as the Holy Therns ; for example, Carter successfully impersonates a Thern named Sator Throg in The Gods of Mars.
About 85 % of Cuban Americans identify themselves as being White, mostly Spanish, which is the highest proportion of all other major Hispanic groups.
During Operation Trust, they used loose networks of White Army supporters and extended them, creating the pseudo -" Monarchist Union of Central Russia " ( MUCR ) in order to help the OGPU identify real monarchists and anti-Bolsheviks.
A person who formerly would have been deemed a Castizo, would today simply identify as mestizo or White.
White Zimbabweans ( also referred to as white Rhodesians, or even simply as Rhodesians ) are people from the southern African country Zimbabwe who identify themselves as white.
That piece was the first to identify the leak as a possible White House crime and the first to characterize the leak as evidence that within the Bush administration political expedience trumped national security.
Though the Mississippi River Band of Chippewa Indians no longer exists legally, the majority of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe and White Earth Band of Chippewa still identify as Mississippi Chippewa.

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