CQ Risk Rating: Safe Democrat 
| GENERAL ELECTION: NOVEMBER 7, 2000 |
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| John D. Dingell (D) | 167,142 | 71% |
| William Morse (R) | 62,469 | 27% |
| Edward Hlavac (LIBERT) | 2,814 | 1% |
| Ken Larkin (USTAX) | 2,154 | 1% |
| Noha F. Hamze (NL) | 938 | 0% |
| PRIMARY ELECTION: AUGUST 8, 2000 |
|
| | Votes | Percentage | | Democratic |
| John D. Dingell | 35,574 | 100% |
| | Republican |
| William Morse | 11,908 | 100% |
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Major Industry | Population | Cities | People | Race | Median Household Income | Unusual Features
MICHIGAN 16
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Southeast Wayne County; Monroe County
Henry Ford built the foundations of the 16th, which covers Monroe
County, Dearborn and other communities downriver from Detroit. The
district's largest city, Dearborn, is home to the Ford Motor Co. factory
that was once the largest on earth. At capacity, the Rouge Plant employed
81,000 people and contained everything needed to build a car from the ground
up, including a steel mill, glass factory and assembly line. The district
still is heavily industrial, but some factories stand vacant. An exception
is the Flat Rock automotive plant, in southern Wayne County, a U.S.-Japanese
joint venture and one of the 16th's largest employers.
The first wave of workers at plants lining the Detroit River came from
Appalachia and the South, as well as Germany, Poland and Italy. Successive
waves brought Arabs, including Shiite Moslems during World War I, and then
Egyptians, Iraqis, Lebanese and others, leaving the district with the
largest Arab-American population in the nation and a strong Arab business
district along Warren Avenue.
Thoroughly unionized and mostly blue-collar, this district regularly
elects Democrats by comfortable margins. There are only a few pockets of
Republican affluence, mainly in the small towns of Riverview and Grosse Ile.
Major Industry
Auto manufacturing, steel, chemical production
Population
580,884 (1990)
Cities
Dearborn, 91,418; Taylor, 71,939 (1996); Dearborn Heights, 51,979 (1990)
People
80% urban; 13% age 65+ (ranks third of 16 in state; middle third
nationally); 60% married couples, 28% married couples with children; 13%
college educated (ranks 11 of 16 in state; bottom third nationally); 53%
white collar (ranks ninth of 16 in state; middle third nationally), 33% blue
collar (ranks third of 16 in state; top third nationally) (1990)
Race
97% white, 1% black, 1% Asian; 2% Hispanic origin (1990)
Median Household Income
$35,315 (ranks sixth of 16 in state; top third nationally) (1990)
Unusual Features
Henry Ford Museum, which houses the rocking chair that President Abraham
Lincoln sat in when assassinated at Washington's Ford's Theatre on April 14,
1865, and the limousine that President John F. Kennedy rode in when shot on
Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas.
Source: Congressional Quarterly (Updated April 1999)
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