Word: blue-collar
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...putting them back under the pressure of hard times that persist for some workers even in the good times for the stock market. Blue-collar voters, most of them white and male, have been crucial to the G.O.P. coalition since the late 1960s, when they started to abandon the Democrats because of everything called liberalism--meaning, roughly, racial integration plus sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. So long as the economic grievances of those voters were secondary to their distaste for the '60s and its aftermath, the G.O.P. could court them without compromising its pro-business orthodoxies...
...last month by AT&T. "You could tell how painful this chop was to [AT&T chief Robert] Allen; he makes $5 million a year and his stock option went up, like, $5 million that day." O.K., says Kevin Phillips, the Republican strategist who predicted the shift of blue-collar ethnics to the Republicans in the '60s. So what would Buchanan do? "I'm not aware that he has proposed anything that would tie the hands of corporate managers," says Phillips. "Or require a new obligation to 'stakeholders' [for instance, employees] as well as shareholders." The Populist movement...
Buchanan, who championed the blue-collar worker, promising to stop sending our jobs to China and Mexico, was appealing to some like dairy farmer Stewart Yatton, who said, "Free Trade and GATT are going to send us to hell...
...want to help the workers, the men and women whose jobs are being sent out of the country," Buchanan said, appealing to blue-collar workers...
...Spyglass Inc., which directly competes with Netscape. Spyglass is not based in lush, sun-tinged California, but rather in Naperville, Illinois. Last June, when the company went public, management celebrated by taking the 54 employees to a minor-league baseball game (tickets: $2 apiece). "We're blue-collar high tech," Colbeth says...