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YoungDemCA

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3. How are you defining "working class" vs "middle class"?

Mon Jun 30, 2014, 05:10 PM

Jun 2014

Income, employment status (self-employed vs employed wage/salary workers vs unemployed) or level of education? This is important.

If it's level of education, there are plenty of rather affluent white men (and even some outright rich ones) who lack a college degree. Business owners, contractors, entrepreneurs, wealthy retirees. Most of these would be in the "some college" category nowadays. And they would be overwhelmingly Republican as a group, I suspect. Todd Palin and Scott Walker are two prominent examples that spring to mind.

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Who will win the Straight, Middle-Class White Male Vote? [View all] YoungDemCA Jun 2014 OP

In answer to your question bluestateguy Jun 2014 #1

actually, it's white working class men who geek tragedy Jun 2014 #2

How are you defining "working class" vs "middle class"? YoungDemCA Jun 2014 #3

hard to disentangle the two, but generally education level. geek tragedy Jun 2014 #4

True YoungDemCA Jun 2014 #5

On my darkest days, I wonder if maybe Kamau Kambon (nutty as he was/is) actually had a point... nomorenomore08 Jul 2014 #6

Add in the "ownership class" JustAnotherGen Jul 2014 #10

The minimum wage hike is polling very well with working class whites shaayecanaan Jul 2014 #7

white working class voters started voting Republican when Democrats geek tragedy Jul 2014 #8

Only in the south shaayecanaan Jul 2014 #9