| 来源类型 | Article
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| 规范类型 | 评论
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| How Republicans can appeal to the white working class |
| Jay Cost
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| 发表日期 | 2019-07-25
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| 出版年 | 2019
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | It seems as though every four years political pundits become fascinated with a certain segment of the electorate. Soccer moms, NASCAR dads, Millennials, Latinos. The possibilities are limited only by one’s ability to slice and dice the American people. Lately, one subgroup receiving particular emphasis has been the “white working class” — usually understood as gainfully employed white voters who do not have a college degree. President Donald Trump won this group in 2016, and Democrats have been scratching their heads. Weren’t these voters historically loyal to us? What can we do to win them back? Do we even want them back?
As with so much else, we tend to ask imprecise questions about these voters because we proceed from faulty premises. It is somewhat ahistorical to think of the Democratic party’s winning back white working-class voters, as if it were their natural home. Over the last century, both parties have made appeals to this voter group, whose support has alternated between the two. This should make sense because, until the post-war period, what we today call the white working class was basically the entirety of the American electorate.
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The two parties’ different appeals trace back to Henry Clay and Andrew Jackson. The Republican argument, which descends from Clay, is premised on the idea that the American economy is integrated and interconnected, meaning that the workers and the owners of capital share a fate; Republicans therefore promise to make it easier for businesses to grow, which, it is claimed, would increase prosperity for all Americans. |
| 主题 | Politics and Public Opinion
; Society and Culture
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| 标签 | Democratic Party
; Political parties
; Republican Party (GOP)
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| URL | https://www.aei.org/articles/how-republicans-appeal-white-working-class/
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| 来源智库 | American Enterprise Institute (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/266167
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