Race conquers all: in New York as in L.A., racial politics thwarts a rebirth of urban liberalism.
American Prospect, The, December, 2001 by Meyerson, Harold
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NEW YORK, LIKE LOS ANGELES, NOW HAS ITS new mayor; that's the bad news. Seldom has a city elected a leader about whom it knew less or who seemed to know less about his city. Their mutual ignorance--New York s of Michael Bloomberg, Michael Bloomberg's of New York--seems almost total. In the course of his campaign, Bloomberg said nothing whatever to indicate how he'd govern, save that he'd try to follow in Rudy Giuliani's footsteps.
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And in Los Angeles, new Mayor James Hahn most certainly knows L.A., but L.A. knows less about him now than when he was a candidate. Five months into his ...
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