Speech #960337098

The majority of the American ethnic voters in my state came from Eastern and Central Europe where Communist regimes are still in power daily violating the human rights of the relatives. friends and former fellow countrymen of these American voters. They never had any illusions of "detente" as it was practiced. being the solution to our foreign policy and defense problems. We have witnessed a major realignment of the ethnic vote in 1980. the beginnings of a new coalition with the Republican Party both by immigrants and the first and second American generation of ethnic voters. It is up to the Republican Party and the new Administration to keep and cement the new coalition in order to retain power and to implement measures the ethnic voters and the Republican Party equally desire. One of the most frequent past complaints of the various American ethnic groups from Europe and Asia was that they are only exploited by the two political parties at election time but are not being given a propor-