It is significant. for example. that in that 27county district 83 out of every 100 are opposed to a medicare program to be financed by an increase in social security taxes. Eightysix out of every one hundred in that large district oppose repeal of section 14(b) of the TaftHartley Act. thus favoring righttowork laws. Another interesting reaction relates to the Presidents proposed changes in our immigration laws. By an overwhelming majority of 78 percent the people in that area oppose scrapping our traditional national origins quota system. and the other proposed changes. Had the people in the 21st District of Texas had their way about it the mammoth Appalachia aid project would have been soundly defeated. They oppose it by a ratio of 67 to 23. with 10 percent undecided.
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