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Here are Things To Do around Fall River, the SouthCoast, and beyond this week: Michelle Sousa Peay at the Westport Fairgrounds. South Coast Harvest Festival to be held in Westport.
The "South Coast" label was born as a public relations effort to counteract the perceived stigma of former terms like "Greater Fall River," "Greater New Bedford," or "New Bedford-Fall River," which conjured images, in many Massachusetts residents' minds, of depressed mill towns with run-down buildings and high unemployment.
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Taunton, Brockton, Fall River, and New Bedford are the largest cities in Southeastern Massachusetts and are close to one another in size. All four have a strong Portuguese presence. In 2000, 43.9% of Fall River residents identified as being of Portuguese heritage. This is the highest percentage of Portuguese Americans in the country.
Fall River's voting history largely mirrors that of Massachusetts as a whole. Before 1928, Fall River was a Republican-leaning city. Beginning in 1928, Fall River became a strongly Democratic city, owing to the large Catholic population in the city. Fall River even voted Democratic in the Republican landslide election wins in 1952 and 1956.
The phrase was popularized in the 1982 song “Viva Fall River” by Portuguese singer Jorge Ferreira. The song talks about the city as "a mother to sons from distant lands,” with neighbors ...
SouthCoast Marketplace is a power center in Fall River, Massachusetts, United States, at the intersection of Route 24 and Route 81. The center opened in 2017 and replaced the New Harbour Mall , an enclosed shopping mall that was located at the site from 1971 to 2016.