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The working class story is about culture, not economic anxiety

1 year ago
In the New York Times today, Jonathan Weisman tells the story—well, a story—of how Democrats lost the white working class. It's all about economic anxiety. Maybe so, but even Weisman himself acknowledges the obvious: It started in 1968 with "hardhats for Nixon." This was long before de-industrialization. It was all about Vietnam and the counterculture. ...continue reading "The working class story is about culture, not economic anxiety"
Kevin Drum

This Week In Techdirt History: December 29th – January 4th

1 year ago
Five Years Ago This week at the end of 2019 and beginning of 2020, a new study shed light on just how racially biased facial recognition algorithms are, while we looked at how tracking college students everywhere they go on campus had become the new norm. The Minnesota appeals court struck down the state’s broadly-written […]
Leigh Beadon