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We’re All In The Same Gang

By Kleinheider Posted on December 31, 2008 at 4:08 pm

Sean Braisted on the divide between the elite and the people:

Human nature is not as complex as we’d like to believe. And the difference between an poverty stricken Southerner and a wealthy urbanite with a master’s degree isn’t all that great in the end. Hopefully the media folks will stop speaking condescendingly of “workin’ class whites” and idealizing small town values as if anyone who lives and works outside of eyesight of a skyscraper is somehow more simplistic in how they chose the candidates they’ll support.

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3 Responses to “We’re All In The Same Gang”

  1. HillbillyBill writes
    January 1st, 2009 6:34 am

    And let it not go unsaid that the white collar workers and up exist on the shoulders and backs of the blue collar and down workers.

  2. TennRod writes
    January 1st, 2009 8:06 pm

    What absolute nonsense. Of course there is a huge difference between some fundamentalist redneck with a 10th grade education in, say, Dayton, Tennessee, and a MA level accountant in Brentwood or suburban Connecticut. Please.

  3. Donna Locke writes
    January 1st, 2009 10:23 pm

    Of course there is a huge difference between some fundamentalist redneck with a 10th grade education in, say, Dayton, Tennessee, and a MA level accountant in Brentwood or suburban Connecticut.

    Yeah, the difference is, the former fights the wars so the latter can do … whatever it is s/he does.

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