Politics and Ethnocentrism : The Case of the Franco-Americans

Walker, David Bradstreet

An analysis of Brunswick and Lewiston, Maine voting patterns based on demography, involvement in ethnic social organizations, and economic scale. Walker examines poll figures beginning with the post-1860 French Canadian migration period and moving into the early 1960s. From the preface, written by James Wilson: "Professor Walker has concerned himself with the effects group existence or pluralism has on the ballot box, not with the sociology of reciprocal prejudice. In doing so, he has contributed to the list of 'they vote their own' literature. Although focus of his study is specifically on Maine, the conclusions he draws have application beyond Maine and the Franco-Americans."

1961

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1865-1965; Brunswick and Lewiston, Maine