Does this forum completely fail to understand working class whites?

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I should say in the interest of honesty that I genuinely do not know what class I am at this point.

Me neither. I'm pretty sure I'm middle class, but I'm not sure if I'm upper middle class, lower middle class, or middle middle class (is that a thing?).

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Still nobody, unless you count me meeting Mitt Romney as a toddler.

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Still nobody, unless you count me meeting Mitt Romney as a toddler.

I don't buy it.  Mitt Romney was never a toddler.

He was ten years old once, though.

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Yes, and, as with most invocations of the term, the "white" bit is unnecessary.

Given how often pundits say "working class" when they really mean "white working class," especially when they wish to offer some sort of "populist" attack on Democrats and/or liberals (from either the left or the right)... I think being precise with our language is vitally necessary.

To say nothing of PR's important point that you need to separate out North and South, as well.

This is not to say that Atlas is any good at understanding working class minorities, either.  But we're not going to do a better job by lumping all the various "working class"es together.

Yeah, Atlas also misunderstands the non-white working class, but in a different way.