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Article: California steeped in identity politics.(Issues '98: Race)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- June 15, 1998
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This is one in an ongoing series on key national issues in the campaigns of 1998.
LOS ANGELES - Results in California's June 2 primary show that identity politics - with voters splitting along racial and ethnic lines - is reshaping the political landscape in the nation's most populous and diverse state.
Political loyalties and issues involving race, ethnicity and immigration are increasingly important in California, but a booming economy has obscured underlying tensions that worry some observers.
"The primary showed we are headed for a major conflagration, and the politicians know it but are in denial," says entrepreneur Glenn Spencer, who ...