White Working Class
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Life-and-Death Decisions: Why Some States Vote to Block Health Care Reform
Jonathan Metzl, author of “Dying of Whiteness,” discusses how racial resentment has fueled a backlash against health care policy designed to include immigrants and minorities—with deadly consequences for working-class white Americans. Read more
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It Was Prejudice. It Was Economics. It Was Both.
New surveys show not all Trump voters had the same motivations. Read more
Place Matters
As in the 1930s, progressives need economic development strategies for the left-behind regions of the country. Read more
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Overture: A Near-Death of Despair
The decimation of the Heartland began a long time ago. Read more
Democrats Need to Be the Party of and for Working People—of All Races
And they can’t retake Congress unless they win over more white workers. Read more
The Democrats’ ‘Working-Class Problem’
It’s not only with whites. It reaches well into the party’s base. Read more
Absent a More Progressive Economics, the Democrats Will Lose
Economic Populism appeals both to core Democratic voters and the white workers with whom the party has failed to connect. Read more
Rebuilding a Progressive Majority by Winning Back White Working-Class Moderates
From the findings of Working America, the AFL-CIO's outreach program to non-union working people Read more
Winning (Some) Middle-of-the-Road Working-Class Whites
White working-class voters differ not just in “what they think” but in “how they think.” Understanding this difference is the key to creating a successful Democratic strategy for regaining their support. Read more
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The Racism Obstacle
There are limits to how effectively a progressive populist economics can woo working-class whites. Read more
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The Outlook for 2018 and 2020
How the white working class figures in to the Democrats’ electoral prospects Read more
Can the Democratic Party Be White Working Class, Too?
While Hillary Clinton was losing Montana by more than 23 points, Steve Bullock was elected governor running as a progressive Democrat. What can the rest of us learn from Montana? Read more
