Democrats and the White Working Class

Democrats and the White Working Class book

12 Leading Progressive Political Strategists Present Fact-Based Proposals for Regaining the Trust of White Working Americans and Winning Their Votes in the Years Ahead

In January 2017, four prominent progressive political strategists— Stan Greenberg, Ruy Teixeira, Harold Meyerson and Karen Nussbaum— invited 10 leading specialists to submit articles expressing their views about white working Americans and national politics. The resulting series of essays has been collected in a book, Democrats and the White Working Class, available from Amazon, and published on the website of The American Prospect magazine.

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Stan Greenberg

Stan Greenberg
The Democrats' Working Class Problem

Ruy Teixeira

Ruy Teixeira
Democrats need to be the party of and for working people--of all races.

Karen Nussbaum

Karen Nussbaum Facing the Challenge

Harold Meyerson

Harold Meyerson
The White Working Class: An American Dilemma

Matt Morrison

Matt Morrison
Bridging the Divide

Guy Molyneux

Guy Molyneux
A Tale of Two Populisms

Celinda Lake, Daniel Gotoff and Olivia Myszkowski

Celinda Lake
The Democratic Party and the White Working Class

Joan Walsh

Joan Walsh
The Racism Obstacle

Justin Gest

Justin Gest
Can the Democratic Party by White Working Class Too?

Robert Kuttner

Robert Kuttner
A review of two important sociological field studies of white working Americans:

Andrew Levison

Andrew Levison
White working class voters differ not just in "what they think" but "how they think".

Ed Kilgore

Ed Kilgore
The Outlook for 2018 and 2020

2017 White Working Class Roundtable Held in Washington D.C.

Press Club Photo

On June 23rd 2017 a major roundtable discussion at the National Press Club attracted an audience of nearly 100 invited guests.

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