Tag Archives: working-class voters

Iowa’s Next Election: Bridging the Urban-Rural and Class Divide

Posted on July 9, 2018 by

My home state of Iowa famously gave Barack Obama a convincing victory in the Democratic caucuses in 2008, the first triumph that launched a young U.S. senator from Illinois to become the first African-American president. Obama ultimately won two terms, … Continue reading →

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Have Ohio Democrats Learned Anything About the Working Class?

Posted on March 5, 2018 by

In presidential elections, Ohio has long been a swing state. Its voters supported Obama in 2008 and 2012, then swung right in 2016 to support Donald Trump. On the state level, however, Republicans have dominated for the past two decades. … Continue reading →

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Economic Nationalism and the Half-Life of Deindustrialization

Posted on October 30, 2017 by

In a 60 Minutes interview in September, Steven Bannon touted his form of economic nationalism and suggested that Democrats like Senator Sherrod Brown and U.S Representative Tim Ryan understood his economic vision, even if they didn’t agree with him. It … Continue reading →

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Have We Been Had? Why Talking About the Working-Class Vote for Trump Hurts Us

Posted on June 12, 2017 by

Like many of my friends and colleagues who study class and are worried about the increasing economic inequality of this country, I was at first overjoyed that the recent presidential election would force us to reckon with the subject of … Continue reading →

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Will the British Working Class Stand Up and Fight Back?

Posted on May 8, 2017 by

I spent my teenage years in 1980s Thatcher’s Britain. Working-class people struggled in a grim environment. Three million people were unemployed, local services and the NHS were underfunded, and attacks were launched against unions (as a result of the miners’ … Continue reading →

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Now Is the Time: Working-Class Studies in the Trump Era

Posted on January 2, 2017 by

I watched President Obama’s inauguration eight years ago with colleagues with whom I had been teaching and organizing around issues of race, class, sexuality, and gender for almost two decades.  That America had elected a black man to its highest … Continue reading →

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Memo to the Next President: Don’t Forget the Working Class

Posted on November 7, 2016 by

At the end of most US presidential elections, most Americans are ready to see the last of campaign ads, social media commentaries and tension-fraught news coverage. That’s even more true this year. But more than in most recent elections, we … Continue reading →

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