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  • July 2008

    • 'Ivy Retardation' Curse of Elites

      The American Scholar  |  Jul 27, 08 5:09 AM CDT

      'Ivy Retardation' Curse of Elites

      (Newser) - Its advantages are undeniable, but an elite education can also cause a crippling case of “Ivy retardation,” as William Deresiewicz realized while struggling, despite fluency in several languages, to make small talk with his blue-collar plumber in Boston. “The best and the brightest” develop an inflated sense of self-worth and are trained to see the lesser-educated as inferior, no matter their intelligence, he writes in American Scholar . More »

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      education  • Ivy League  • working class  • elite

  • June 2008

    • To Court Blue-Collar Vote, Light Up

      New York Times  |  Jun 17, 08 10:00 AM CDT

      To Court Blue-Collar Vote, Light Up

      (Newser) - Everyone has ideas about how Barack Obama can attract the working-class white voters that eluded him in the primaries. Author Tony Horwitz goes for the throat: Start smoking again. West Virginia and Kentucky, where Hillary Clinton clobbered Obama, lead the nation in cigarette consumption among whites, and lighting up could help worse-off voters see him as one of their own. More »

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      Barack Obama  • smoking  • tobacco  • white voters  • working class  • cigarette  • working-class vote

  • April 2008

    • George Will Knows the Working Class?

      New Republic  |  Apr 18, 08 7:37 PM CDT

      George Will Knows the Working Class?

      (Newser) - George Will knows blue collar America? Probably not, Jonathan Chait writes in the New Republic , but the "fabulously wealthy, bow tie-wearing, pretentious" pundit still blasted Barack Obama for saying rural voters "cling to" firearms and religion. And Will is not alone—US leaders have long treated blue collar workers as "a victim-hero class" with "moral superiority" they don't have. More »

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      Barack Obama  • blue-collar vote  • Bittergate  • working class  • George Will

    • 'Screw 'Em,' Hillary Said of Working-Class Whites in '95

      Huffington Post  |  Apr 17, 08 8:14 AM CDT

      'Screw 'Em,' Hillary Said of Working-Class Whites in '95

      (Newser) - Hillary Clinton has criticized Barack Obama for talking down to low-income voters, but the Huffington Post digs up a quote from 1995 that appears to offer a different stance. Strategizing on how to win back working-class voters in the South, she told her husband: "Screw 'em. You don't owe them a thing, Bill. They're doing nothing for you; you don't have to do anything for them." More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • election 2008  • Democrats  • working class  • low income voters  • Southerners

  • March 2008
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  • October 2007

    • Class Reigns Supreme in Britain

      Guardian (UK)  |  Oct 20, 07 2:58 PM CDT

      Class Reigns Supreme in Britain

      (Newser) - Britain’s Labour Party says a classless society can be a reality in England, but after 10 years in power, their country still feels deeply divided by class. According to a Guardian survey, 89% of Britons felt they were judged by their class, with almost half saying it counted for “a lot.” The majority considered themselves working class. More »

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      Great Britain  • Labour Party  • middle class  • working class

  • July 2007

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