The Blue-collar Appeal of Hard Times

Blue color workers in difficult times required Charles Dickens to carefully observe the then ivory tower of the bourgeoisie in difficult times, but the roles of these middle classes from a single point of view . . The role of Dickens tends to develop well and is totally human but the arrogant and demanding stereotype of bounding derbee can not precisely capture the motive and attitude of a typical successful businessman at that time . .

The media coverage of the general election in 2016 often emphasizes the charm of Donald Trump to the working class. The Associated Press wishes to know that his election strategy implies that the playing cards succeeded in gathering white-class working-class voters. On the 9th of November, the article on the front page on victory of cards in the New York Times said, "The demonstration of a decisive power by the white-collar white and wage laborers who were largely ignored."

Advocates of playing cards celebrated his charm to a blue-collar voter highly emphasized in the Midwestern industry, and of course these people were the key to his success in the White House. However, in the midterm election the cards strategy and style showed that the hangover will be delayed. Republicans lost the House of Representatives because they collapsed in the suburbs. This year, they lost governor on Wisconsin and Michigan 's blue collar. It is the key that the cards penetrated the blue wall of the Democratic Party in 2016.

Blue collar workers have played an important role in election politics. In the 2016 US presidential election, Donald Trump 's victory in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan was attributed to blue collar workers who prefer cards instead of competitors Hillary Clinton. In the white working class, the cards won 64% of the votes, but Clinton got only 32% of the votes. This is the biggest victory in this group of voters at any presidential candidate since 1980.

Since 1952, changes in the identity of blue-collar workers are also important. Blue-collar workers are strongly confirmed by the Democratic Party of Japan. In most of the period from 1952 to 1968, more than 60% of unskilled blue-collar workers regarded themselves as Democrats (except blue-collar workers with low skill in 1960) . Please consider yourself a Republican (see Figure 8.17). In most of the same period, over 50% of skilled blue-collar workers considered themselves Democrats, but only 25% thought that they were Republicans (see Figure 8.16). There have been two major changes since 1972. Firstly, the proportion of blue-collar workers identified as Democrats declined (at low skill population this percentage has remained at only 35% since 1972; among skilled workers until mid-term Stable when it falls sharply to 23%)