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The white working class knows the American project isn’t working. Here’s why that will never matter to them
Access to power over other racial groups is their preferred political currency There is no shortage of interest in the voting patterns of the white working class. Of particular note is how this group – especially since the sea change of the 1960s – finds themselves so consistently on the wrong side of progressive politics. The national preoccupation with the white working class’s affinity for rightwing conservatism has propagated countless bestselling books , long reads and think pieces that are often mawkish or condescending or both . Their almost exclusively centrist white elite authors plead for us to understand how those in the white working class feel “left behind” , and that they turned hard right because Democrats didn’t tend to their economic anxieties. These pieces pose questions like “Why is the working class leaving the Democratic party?” and equate the term “working class” wi
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Access to power over other racial groups is their preferred political currency There is no shortage of interest in the voting patterns of the white working class. Of particular note is how this group – especially since the sea change of the 1960s – finds themselves so consistently on the wrong side of progressive politics. The national preoccupation with the white working class’s affinity for rightwing conservatism has propagated countless bestselling books , long reads and think pieces that are often mawkish or condescending or both . Their almost exclusively centrist white elite authors plead for us to understand how those in the white working class feel “left behind” , and that they turned hard right because Democrats didn’t tend to their economic anxieties. These pieces pose questions like “Why is the working class leaving the Democratic party?” and equate the term “working class” wi
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According to The Guardian’s source item, The white working class knows the American project isn’t working. Here’s why that will never matter to them, Access to power over other racial groups is their preferred political currency There is no shortage of interest in the voting patterns of the white working class. Of particular note is how this group – especially since the sea change of the 1960s – finds themselves so consistently on the wrong side of progressive politics. The national preoccupation with the white working class’s affinity for rightwing conservatism has propagated countless bestselling books , long reads and think pieces that are often mawkish or condescending or both . Their almost exclusively centrist white elite authors plead for us to understand how those in the white working class feel “left behind” , and that they turned hard right because Democrats didn’t tend to their economic anxieties. These pieces pose questions like “Why is the working class leaving the Democratic party?” and equate the term “working class” wi
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- The white working class knows the American project isn’t working. Here’s why that will never matter to themThe Guardian - 2026-06-21T13:53:08+00:00
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