Trading in the Wages of Whiteness
Can the white working class vote their pocketbooks and not their racial identity?
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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