white-working-class

racism, 59– 72 in assessments of morality and merit, 61 class differences in expressions of, 61– 63 elite displacement of blame ...

religion elite approach to, 27– 28 , 38 work as, 38 working-class embrace of, reasons for, 20– 21 , 69 Republican Party appeal t ...

Richards, Ben, 64 Rieder, Jonathan, 21 , 62 Rivera, Lauren, 46 rules, respect for, 66– 67 rural areas as education deserts, 48 i ...

self-interest, of working-class women, 74 self-worth, merit vs. morality in, 16– 17 service jobs, networked, 93– 94 Sessions, Je ...

sibling rivalry, 56– 57 Silver, Nate, 11 “Simpsons, The” (television show), 2– 3 sincerity, vs. irony, as class divide, 30 slave ...

of elites, 21 of working class, 20– 21 , 39– 40 sophistication, elite displays of, 28– 29 southern whites in Democratic Party, 1 ...

Submerged State, The (Mettler), 98 subsidies for child care, 14 , 16 lack of public understanding of, 98 for middle class, 100 t ...

Tea Party government benefits opposed by, 21 hostility to government in, 101 on importance of jobs, 124 on regulatory capture, 1 ...

Clinton’s arguments against, 77 , 78– 79 educational level of supporters of, 12 on jailing Clinton, 106 Latino support for, 110– ...

up-credentialing, 85– 86 values. See also family values; traditional values of immigrants, 66 of Latinos, 110– 111 values, of el ...

domestic, 81 police, 116– 119 vocational training, 85 wages. See income wages-of-whiteness strategy, 59– 60 wealthy elites tax c ...

fictional depictions of, 2– 3 income of, 3 , 10 , 11 mobility of ( see geographic mobility) moral traits valued by, 16– 17 , 18 ...

stay-at-home motherhood among, 76– 77 women, working-class, 73– 78 abortion views among, 115 on blue-collar jobs, 74– 75 family ...

everyday life of, 14– 16 income of, 3 , 10 , 11 as middle class, 10 mobility of ( see geographic mobility) parenting approaches ...

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