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Article: America's Forgotten Majority: Why the White Working Class Still Matters.
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- The Progressive
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- September 1, 2000
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America's Forgotten Majority: Why the White Working Class Still Matters by Ruy Teixeira and Joel Rogers Basic Books. 215 pages. $27.00.
Although the idea of class has typically been the skunk in e garden party of American politics, growth in income inequality and persistent Republican catering to the rich--such as the attempt to repeal the estate tax--have recently given notions of class more prominence and legitimacy. Nevertheless, there is still little acknowledgment that in America the majority of people are part of a working class, or that political parties ought to take their needs seriously.
In their well-argued, important new book, America's ...