> here's a question to keep the pen-l pot boiling: to what extent is the
> punditocracy's common narrative true, i.e., that many white male
> blue-collar workers in the US are "Reagan Democrats" who vote for the
> GOP? if true, why did this happen?
> -- 
> Jim Devine

Racism. It took the form of Welfare Queens, etc.

In the last several years that's broaden into different territory as 
xenophobias and scapegoating toward Latino and Muslim-looking people.

CG 

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