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Trading in the Wages of Whiteness

Trading in the Wages of Whiteness

Can the white working class vote their pocketbooks and not their racial identity?

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Rod Graham
Feb 28, 2023
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One of the major narratives from liberals about working-class white Americans - white people without college degrees - has been that they vote against their economic interests. They have shifted to the right since the mid-1990s and support policies that may preserve their cultural identity but do little to address their economic downslide. Restricting a…

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