Sentences with phrase «working class whites»

They don't learn that the GI Bill that led to social mobility for a lot of working class whites in the 1950s didn't include nondiscrimination clauses, so African Americans couldn't access it fully.

When I was pounding the streets of Watford, hardly one of the most salubrious constituencies in the land, at the last general election, I encountered resentment from working class whites.

Ros Lucas, chief executive of the Migrants Resource Centre, said one misperception was that many working class whites assumed migrants were taking over social housing, but this was not the case.

However one would get a rather different impression of the state reading Karen Tumulty's piece in the Washington Post on West Virginia's economic struggles, the plight of working class whites, and their changing....

Right - leaning non-whites and non-evangelical working class whites are closer to each other on economics than they are to either the business lobbies of the GOP establishment or to populist conservatives who think America has been morally lost ever since the FDR first became president.

Additionally, working class whites tend to be concentrated in critical swing states across the Midwest.

Across the pond, Englishmen like John Mayall, the Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton were «60s epigones of African American music who could somehow mechanically reproduce the sound of the American south, but who apparently had no real idea of what they are playing in that their experience (even as working class whites in an English class system) was entirely alien to the modes and mores of the American south.

Working class whites have been disenfranchised (along with all working class, of course) by automation and outsourcing, and Trump offers them a scapegoat (Immigrants and «liberals who gave their jobs away»).

Not exact matches

More broadly, Vance observes economic defeatism from working - class whites who blame foreign companies for moving good jobs overseas and politicians for prioritizing the needs of other groups.

Rather than assuming that all women or African Americans or working - class whites will respond to the same message, they target individual voters with emotionally charged content — in other words, ads designed to tug on emotional biases.

Lee's plans are not silver bullets, but they can be part of an economic agenda that can appeal to persuadable Hispanics and African Americans (who — due to residency patterns — are more likely to live near people who are economically struggling) and working - class whites.

Kemp's own career in upstate New York indicated that this was possible (at least among working - class whites.)

There seems to be a strong indication that many working - class whites in the rust belt simply couldn't bring themselves to vote for Barack Obama or Mitt Romney.

Even at that time, I was thinking of the working - class ethnic wards of Chicago, Milwaukee, Toledo, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and other cities, and of the need to unite both blacks and working - class whites.

They are both betting that conservatives will never reach out to moderate working - class whites and moderately conservative nonwhites.

Working - class whites (who might not like Obama, but who worry about what would happen to their insurance status with a layoff) won't buy it.

This document produced a political strategy that has managed to alienate social conservatives, working - class whites, and tea partiers (these are obviously partially overlapping categories).

The autopsy's immigration approach managed to alienate populist conservatives and Republican - leaning, working - class whites who opposedupfront legalization.

A conservative nationalism that can't speak to both recent immigrant populations and anxious working - class whites will lose to left - wing cosmopolitanism.

When it comes to moderate, working - class whites, Democrats have adopted the attitude that if you can't win them over, you can at least demoralize some of them into not voting.

Those with the most chaotic lives are the least likely to vote, but writers like Ross Douthat and Michael Brendan Dougherty have speculated that one of the reasons Trump's earliest voting base was made up of working - class whites was because of the slow social collapse that Charles Murray wrote about.

If the Puritans lashed Quakers and hung «witches,» the Southern gentlemen exploited, lashed, and hung recalcitrant negroes — as in a more subtle way the burgeoning commercial - industrial upper classes of the North exploited and abused the newly emergent industrial working classes of immigrants and poor whites, especially in the growing cities of the Northeast.

He would have to explain how he can reach the working - class whites and persuadable African - Americans, Hispanics, and Asian - Americans that rejected Romney.

Millions of working - class whites felt that Obama was talking about them, too, when he said, «There's not a liberal America and a conservative America — there's the United States of America.

The irony is that the priorities of reciprocal solidarity already align with the intuitions of the secular, working - class whites who were drawn to Donald Trump's rhetoric.

A politics of reciprocal solidarity can be a way to bring both working - class whites and a larger share of first - and second - generation wage - earners into a constructive nationalist politics.

But non-evangelical working - class whites also have conflicted feelings about the size of government.

Despite Mitt Romney's inability to build economic consensus, non-evangelical working - class whites and some nonwhite voters share some common ground when it comes to economic policy.

Just as Reagan listened to unionized Democratic workers, today's populist conservatives should listen to Henry Olsen on working - class whites and Artur Davis on middle - class African - Americans and Latinos.

While marriage and family are in fairly sturdy shape among college - educated whites, the nuclear family has almost disappeared among inner - city blacks and appears to be in increasing trouble among working - class whites.

The right can reach out to nonwhites and non-evangelical working - class whites simultaneously.

Western New York, with large black population in the cities and working - class whites in the suburbs, is a political bellwether.

On Top of the News Republican hopefuls agree: The key to the White House is working - class whites The Washington Post 1/13/15

If the connective tissue between the urban poor and downwardly mobile working - class whites is lost on pundits and policy makers, the same isn't true of Vance, who describes being deeply struck by William Julius Wilson's book The Truly Disadvantaged.

Usually dominated by a color palette of whites, beiges and tans, her work sneaks knotty questions about class and gender into seemingly unobtrusive and generically pleasing visual compositions.

They supposedly take jobs away from working - class whites like him and are changing his white way of life in Canada.