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tore, some 6f them al^e bound the overal【j>roportfonofjA'S| In case of MoyorGed^e
toinherけsuch' a hfephilosop-hyにCo aversely: they te"d to be antiiDerrYocrotk:. They tend )oてfroyvn gipon suchcjucjlities osidlene$Sidependency, and Walfare suip)poけ,andナhey tencT to blame the Dem^qrQflc Party as thg source 'oftli的e undesirable traits and practi-'■ ces.…■ ■ ■ :. .■リ-
Noneth9l"さに^rdnfomia:s Rゅub,(〖ocm p OIL "a cms are generally hot staunch or re-cfctiohary dorKservcjti\>es. tfYo-fcably the solさexception to this, general.rule is US Serrottor ridvrq,!^wcf4 Thサare;ザo〖: example, quむe liberal jn the civilrightsノ布'6ld,卩erhapi5けis inevけa;b!e. Mゅy of them have persor\ally told me about a greatt;iectl. afracialcn$crimi-ndti。n they hゃN/ケe)opefriゅ(^6d over thきcourse 。f thesir.life histpry. One of thenrt Council 'man Toru Mi yds hi (Santa Maria) he IS beervci civil rights
to Cdげomia's po(pulation Islge, (Monterey Park), Irさwas mo re1."I o/o. Qbvio"ly rさfying:o'piposedanddef6dtecrby a 、solely on the JA votes isnoむやhUUp in o American candidate a v折y parertcal way to win crjjiparent,y、 because he>lo"
notrto y most of the P川ipino (voナes but d so much of
public 6仔ice.' iHoVv q bout forrTV in g trooali-
tion of noりwhけe VQfers? If the さi之e <jfJA votersissケhoi:)さ-less|y\small/isn't it hrvorepird-grD:qtic fordl thenonwhほet6 一,ogさtherちヽ.;fo orgrtjze, o majority or hi ear majority coa卩tion,ancT to defeqt the VVfVけ,c:qncndate? In theoryけ fHciy mなke sense to discuss a no"wー mafbnify codけion to. elect a cane J (date, but in practice this seems to opouj" veryrafely in CdifcTmid. The genera! .pqra meter; of the ethま:com(posけipn iri Ca"for-nia largely eliminate that p6s-s i'bi I〖ty»1n theヌi ndゃf <?om-murtities whさre JApolitic'ians are active^ a totaトof all the horiwhけe Voters ciぉusually'
the rton-JA Asian . aftd White yotes. When the size of, a given fm(nor(ty grouip becomes sufficiently lar^e, if understahdabiy: prefers to el 6 <t one'of, its own ra-ther "than to, continue to sup; port one of another hninodty gr勿pがふas the JA's.、'
A fairly !cirge mm orはy group which havざ—ゾet tomofcilize. its. full .pontiGalもoienticilare th(B AAexioans. In many communities whei^e the JAV have alrea: dy^ elected their own city counci In ^en, the Mexican's have noナ, although th台ir.size mayゎe as large as 200/o, 300/o, or even
waシin wWthsofne of the de-dsions are made by their loco! gdvernmetits.It is then inevitable that s6me of these busト ness grooms Wcmt to influehce dty government"A'moひg tlieきe, 如yfartbe m。st irrip6rtant grpi^p CI re developers) (An ex-ception to this pattern in Gcir-iflena, N^h6rさth, iporker clubs >vlさId strong po!けicei I influence. Three WWtep6litidans receive ppれticaIずurtclsマrom thesさcli^右 and support thecn: politico 11 y. The remcnmng two jApoliti-cidns do . noすr6ceivさタny money from' the c5ard clubs、 an<cit<xkeひcriti<:dr(RoHtkd| positi加。gainst them) Since
many comrrummぉirj California a re ex'pa n a m g very ra'pゅ ly,ひnd si rice a g reat dealof rponey con be made in real estate, it4$ harc} nbt for djeve-
loゃers to attempt fd influence rhore. Many of these fend to the city planningてorrjmissk)n be ruralagric;uJturalconnmun卜qnd even thさcけy coundl【ト
activist for some time on be- , a clear majoHty are normally
W ell be I pw the majorHy, cmci:"さs^^the〖them uぁan indus廿レ
half of not only the JA:s but also the Mexiccm-AnrieiMcans. AAost of C。nforr)i。's J A Reipu-blican ipo(|ticicin$ support" a proposal to seek so meかpe of remedies for the forced relocation tjnd internnVerit一ひ ft "he JA's durinさWorld V/ar11.
STRONG WHITE SひPPORT、
According to the1970 c ens us, th IB ethnic composけion of California's pop>ulqtion is as follows: WWtes 78.00/o Me j deans11.OO/o, B!ack's 7.00/6; Irvdians 0.50/ひ,Japanesel.l0/o, Chinese 0.90/o,Phniif)ino 0.70/0, dllothers 0.8o/o.けwe ass\jme the population were ethnically evenly distribufedi: then the
-whけes would _be: by fdr the moきtnunierousgnpひp in every com my n i ty in CaH for n i。. If so ,
:Cdif6rniq's JA ^HticiarV? n^o。ld have no cho'にebufto get a large pqrt of the White vote? in ordゃr to win public office.
fk)Wever, the ethnic make: "p is not reaIIy uniforpfr Calif(^rnia. So巾e comrnu:nけies m。y hqve <i relatively large proportion df JA's whereas o十ぉers: mayhove a large pr<^-poけlon of Blacks or Mexicans. Let usfodcal;the reql existing ethmccHstributi6n and cmalyzd the j a! ppntician's' abilけy to garner vo,的on thar basis.
,n generd, ja,sdonotc。ns-titi)te a sfgnificant minority group in most comnujn'ities iり California. P rob obiy thもheovi-est concen什otion of JA's— oppro x innately 20% — is found in Gardena, but this ;s on exception rother .than the rule. Even in those commun-けies-where one or moreJA poHticians occupy —lie office, tト壽、size of JA's rarely exceeds 10。/o or even 5。/o. Probably it should be expected, because
Whites, Thus 。n o,ptirnum "ra-t印y for a JA candidate is to appeal to theWhけevoters.ln bther words,wfienever a JA w<ins public office, he or she usually receives alarge part of a mCTJority of the NA/hけe voナes wけh or wけhout strong support frorh eadvofl"hふmino-Hty groups.
IrvGarcIena where the $1ze Qf nonwhite is quけelひrge
As'ians 20.5%, Blacks17.50/o, Mexicans16.20/o, arid Whites 45,80ん"97"ata)—ひrhay seem possible fo put together a winning coalけion of non-whはe votザs:Yet there is nひ らvidence that it has been actually successfully organized. Two recenドJ A 、CRrncilmゃn, •s R/k。しand yincent Oka-moto, received cr great deal。f VVhけevotes as vyell 。s non-Vk/liけe votes. When a former jA itidyor (KenNcrkaoka) was defeated bya ,けe canclido" he dゃpprentlylostlarge vcites from botii: th e J A a nd Whけe conrtmuひHies in iSardena. At the present rriortJent, the voter appeal of the J A politicians inCdilorniaUnoi very well splitalori。 tfie.White-rionwhけe radaj division.
dんfhe othさr licind, there dre dctualとases \yhefe. victorious JA candidates failed toぶet str(?ng support from some •m'mority groups. Specific exqnfi-•p,e$ ore State AssemWymcm PdulBannai (R:Gard.的a and 汁s vicinity) vis-a-vis Block voters, Counciimar} Frank Ogawa (Oak land | vis-a〜is Bbck voters, and County Supervisor RichardYoshikciwa (Son Joaquin) vis-ci-vi$. PhHHp'mo voters. In al! the above three cases, the JA polけickms could o仔set this fOSS by strong support from the White and other minority voters.
41 Gomrpunities. According to many JA poli"cicms, the Mexican G6mmunityten<;lk> be badly divided into factions: the Mexi(;ans are poorly regis-tered and infrequenty participate in t hp- elec I:or a I process; cmd they are not an effective voting bloc. A possible excepti-6n is Oynard (where we find a JA mayor (Dr. Tsu'jio Koto) andasIAci.ty coundlman (Nao Tdkasugi). A fair number of JA po lit id cms insisted that Ceasar Chavez had little in-fluence art long the grass roots Mexicans.
INDEPENDENT — MINDED 'POLmClANS
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se}f. Not inむeqt;ently develo-'pers can succeed m recrurnn^ some pまWans and mひking them their agents at fhe city hafl.:
In additiゃQ^ we pften find a reformist group in many commumTi&s mしciiiTorma. There activists are generally interested in preserving environment, control ling real estate developments and cleaningゅp the''corruption "in city government". Thus many cひm muni ties in CaHfornia are div.idetl_pet-ween 十wo opposing grouips-^-relatively old polけicians who f§]*id to tooperdte with develo--ers and relatively new .poli-ficians who often represent reformists and environmenkJ-
Thus fcii" I hdve shown thqt mo St V icto Ho us J A po"ticialislists,AAost JA polmciansci|>
arerecdvingさtronさWhけe eレ e-oral support. But how is i, pos'$ible?。ne common riBdson that Iぉave found among C。liforniqVJA poHticians is that they rpaintain a fairly favorable imaがamong the generd eledx)rdteciりd es: pecially among化e White voters. The J A polHic;an$ are widely consideredfo be fair, neutralゆd ho nest. MbresjDe-difically, most. JA po(けiciqns OTe regarded a$ indeperident of the:s)3eda1 inぉrestsJnほlie comrnunUiゃs whereas many of their opponents — hiost!y V\/hite cancUdotes — are not. lrv to clay's Americcir) 'electoral firocess, ihtegrity is a relotively pote/it 、faqtor. Agc?ipst the backdrop of V^atさgate. Koreag。te, and other scandals, one can not underestimate the significance of sijch qualities as fairness, neutrality, ond honesty in ossessing the vofe-gathering ability of a given poHticol candidate.
In many communities in CaHfornia, we find various business groups whose interest are profoundly affected by the
pear1p bel'ゥng to thelat,er group:
In thecontext his political power equation, X3aHf6mia's po!けician纟ひppedr to enjoy severaladvcintag".下Ust, "s— udty the extent of conflict between the -りld-pionticicin-cievチ ',.oper groui:^qndnewipont〖cian -enviro—eritdist group so intense that thき\A/hite-and-non white disiinctiori is oft en reduced t(O seぉridary or IT marginal issije. Seconal,けis -easier for the rーoiynisトgroup to sell a J A candidate to the general public. Since a J A candidate tends to be nev\a and isnon-wFiけe, he appears 1esさtied to the establishpnent in the corrv muれify. In many instances, a J/^ candidatelooks "cleaner" than many Wh】teccmcHdates. Third, unlike other m in or Hies, a JA candidate tends to be well educated andprofession--al, or atleast quUe diligent. •Thus the JA candidatelooks more gualified than most minority candidates. j "would be of course naive
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Vice Presidents Midori Iwa-saki, Toshi Oikawa
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