Sentences with phrase «middle white folks»

One of the biggest miscalculations among Democrats has to do with the level of suffering among disaffected working class and middle white folks.

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But, one thing you feel in Reading is that there are these middle class and working class white folks who feel very angry and are pointing to the Latino population for all their woes.

If you build it, white middle - class folk will come.

Frankly, I don't care, but I'm a bit flummoxed by folks who believe a Middle - Eastern Jew would have been WHITE..

As Charles Murray details in Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960 - 2010, the top 20 percent of society now lives very differently from the bottom third, with the folks in the middle trending down, not up.

White middle - class folk especially value community for the personal nurture it promises us, while we ignore its challenge of political and economic justice.

(Oh... wait... I forgot... Liberals only believe in abortion for African - Americans and poor people, not upper - middle class married white folks.

With Man Down, following the jarring, harshly lit opening sequence, Montiel plays with three time periods, the first being the picaresque, Apple - pie glow afforded white, suburban middle class folks who follow each other through familiar life trajectories.

And if takes him a white middle - class family living in an expensive home attempting to find The One while swearing like common folk to tackle such ambitious topics, then screw it, darling, there's no use crying over spilt champagne on the billiards table.

You could argue that this represents a real cross-section of Southern attitudes and how they evolved through the Civil Rights movement and into the modern day, or you could see it as simpering, middlebrow - pleasing pabulum meant to assure its middle - class elderly white audience that it's not racist and appreciates good, Oscar - feted movies about black folk (written / directed / produced by white folks) based on Pulitzer Prize - winning plays (by white folks).

When a Black grandparent can point to a school and system that failed them, their children, and, now, their grandkids, yet middle class (mostly White) folks tell them not to opt out of that school / system, something sinister is askew.

Because the hungry pets of the homeless are being joined more and more by the hungry pets of people who simply are having trouble making ends meet... middle - class folks pummeled by the economy, white - collar workers recently laid off; the unemployed, the underemployed, single parents, heroic victims of domestic violence, proud war veterans, the disabled, fixed income seniors and more.