What Centering The White Working Class Would Mean For Democrats

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3. Just what is "the white working class"? Is that based on income, education, job and skills...

or what.

And how is that different from black, Hispanic, or other working class?

And where does the middle class start?

Income?

Cops in my town make $120,000. Stop&Shop pays 9-10 bucks an hour. I don't know exactly what union electricians at the New Jersey Meadowlands made, but I knew few of them who comfortably supported two houses, various luxury cars, and a couple of ex-wives. One told me he was retiring at over 50 grand a year so he wouldn't get fired when they outsourced electrical work and brought the new guys in at half the union wage.

Dock workers? Doesn't sound like much when you look at the base wage, but most of them still working at Port Newark get a lot of triple time hours. Heard one story about a guy who put in so much time he never went home. Once he actually went home, and forgot where it was.

I guess we can safely call the shop clerks "working class" based on income, but what about the ones with college degrees waiting for something better to come up? Or working their way through school?

Maybe, "working class" is an primarily an attitude.