Word: blue-collar
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...blue-collar working class and the lower-middle white-collar class, Riesman explained, feel threatened by the blacks or Puerto Ricans moving into their neighborhoods and puzzled by the upper-class and upper-middle-class "anti-Puritan snobs" who seem "to tolerate if not to sponsor the radicals...
...unpleasant-side of human nature. When the average citizen achieves a socio-economic plateau that he has long been striving for, the first thing he often does is try to deny that level to those immediately below him on the scale. This tendency is evident today as many blue-collar union workers support George Wallace in a desperate attempt to deprive the Negro and Puerto Rican of the same benefits they now enjoy. These newly self-appointed guardians of the status quo would do well to remember from whence they came...
...Warren, Mich., a blue-collar town, Mayor...
Despite the glaring lack of uniform standards across the country, most police recruits fit Dr. Rhead's prescription, as far as it goes. In Eastern and Midwestern cities, the typical recruit is a Roman Catholic of blue-collar background and Irish, Polish or perhaps Italian ancestry. Often, says Chicago Psychologist Arnold Abrams, he has been "exposed to an autocratic environment." Most recruits are eldest sons; most tend to be nervous around authority. In Detroit, says former Police...
Trouble was, the method systematically excluded the lower classes, particularly blue-collar workers and Southern Negroes, who might otherwise be qualified. Many a criminal defendant complained-not without reason-that such people hardly constituted a jury of his peers...