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Re:Public Opinion in Authoritarian States by pgcj_poster on Thursday September 26, 2019 @08:18PM (#21087141)
I find it really weird that people use "working class" to mean "white, rural, and blue-collar." While those people assuredly are working-class, so are waitresses in The Bronx and janitors in San Francisco, who are mostly Democrats.

And by the way, immigrants, at least the ones you hear about in the media, are largely working-class. When people just ignore certain groups of people when talking about "the working class," it's pretty clear that they're not really just talking about economic status.

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Re:Public Opinion in Authoritarian States by isoskeles on Thursday September 26, 2019 @09:59PM (#21087721)
> I find it really weird that people use "working class" to mean "white, rural, and blue-collar."

I don't think my comment did this.

> And by the way, immigrants, at least the ones you hear about in the media, are largely working-class.

I don't believe anyone has ever claimed otherwise. Or if they have, it's more along the lines of referring to immigrants as welfare recipients. Either way I'm not going to defend a strawman.

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