Stands for "White Working Class" They started using it late in this election. Prior to this election I had not heard it anywhere. Strange. Back when I was growing up, every kid's father worked, at the Dennison plant, at the GM assembly plant, at the Roxbury carpet company, at truck farming, at auto repair. None of them had a college degree. No blacks lived in Framingham MA in those days. I went to public school and I don't remember a single black kid in any of my classes. I didn't meet any blacks until I joined the Air Force. So, back then, everyone in town was white, and worked and so the white working class was everybody.
The other thing I don't like about the buzzword is the "working class" part of it. Has an unpleasant Marxist sound to it. Or is it an attempt to revive the idea of Communist class war?
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