American Political Science Review XLIX (June 1955). 385401. Under the proposed Humphrey system. organized minorities would have to develop nationwide in place of local manifestations of strength. This would probably be consistent with existing trends away from a parochial minority group policitics as successive generations of descendants of immigrants become integrated into the American comImnunity. as some minorities depart from ghettoes to suburbia. and as the South becomes less solid and more like the rest of the Nation in its political patterns. In the very nature of the pluralism of American politics. organized minorities may be expected to exert substantial influence under any system of presidential election. To equate the survival of minority group influence with the preservation of a dubious strategic advantage under the present electoral college system is to place that influence upon very tenuous grounds indeed. by which the Senate passed Senate bill 1538. to provide for the adjustment of the legislative jurisdiction exercised by the United States over land in the several States used for Federal purposes.
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