Word: blue-collar
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...defined national issues. The social questions that dominated the past two elections?law-and-order, welfare, and busing to integrate schools?were absent for the most part. Instead, inflation and the recession withered voters' attitudes toward Republican incumbents. Explains Emil Gutoski, a Republican precinct captain in Cicero, Ill., a blue-collar suburb of Chicago: "When people are hurting, they vote the opposition." Adds Political Demographer Ben Wattenberg: "In tunes of economic trouble, this country still regards the Democratic Party as the one that's more for the little guys...
...proportion of Americans in economic distress rose to 33%, from 28% in July and 23% in May. Predominantly young (44% under 35 years) and blue-collar (53%), these people find themselves unable to pay bills or save for the future and worry about losing their jobs because of the economy...
...tenants oppose the Neighborhood Plan because it "ignores Cambridge's need for blue-collar jobs and for low-rent housing," CTOC spokesman Joseph Cirincioni said in a prepared preface to the demonstration...
...spectacle at Snake River Canyon was not "a blue-collar Woodstock." It was more of a redneck Altamont. It's great to know that the good ole heartland is just as frivolous and decadent as the East and West Coasts...
Versifier Rod McKuen, 41, has returned to the kind of drifting blue-collar work that he used to do before he hit the treacle trail in 1966 with Stanyan Street and made his first million. To research a book he plans to write about "what people are doing in America," Rod is back driving cabs, grooming horses, baking cookies and selling ice cream in the streets. Hardly anybody has recognized him so far. But when Rod was pumping gas at a station recently in Miami, a woman drew up in a blue compact and gasped...