It is true that blue-collar, unionized, metal-bending shops that employed workers by the thousands are gone.
But the Gipper was popular among blue-collar Democrats as well as his own party.
Even now some high-level blue-collar jobs are easy to get if one has the right skills.
He remembers a hotel lobby in the small, blue-collar port town of Arlington, Ore.
If one person deserves credit, it is this Chicago-born offspring of blue-collar Greek immigrants.
Pivotal blue-collar Reagan Democrats have been reluctant to embrace the Illinois senator's message of change.
Compare this with an interview your correspondent had with a blue-collar Texan last year.
She was expected to do well with women and older voters and blue-collar households.
Blue-collar workers prefer jobs that let them take long breaks and have flexible hours.
"We wanted to bring a little of that blue-collar toughness to our team, " Bidwill says.
Hillary Clinton's support among blue-collar voters here, "We did fear the Obama-Clinton ticket, " Cowan tells CNN.
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Isn't that the dream of every white, blue-collar parent, and every black, blue-collar parent?
Mr Springsteen's past odes to blue-collar America were as bleak as rock music gets.
They are convinced that Michigan, despite its blue-collar reputation, is secretly a state of high-rollers.
The growth in real earnings for blue-collar professions--industry, warehousing and construction--have generally lagged those of white-collar workers.
The BLS data collected on these jobs after 2005 no longer categorizes them by the blue-collar moniker.
This is one that is going deep into the economy, it is not hitting blue-collar workers alone.
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That's in part because of demographics that play to her base of blue-collar workers, women and Hispanics.
Akron is in Ohio's Summit County, a blue-collar battleground within perhaps the 2012 campaign's defining battleground state.
Mr Kozlowski looks for people like him bare-knuckled, blue-collar fighters, immersed in the business and not the company bureaucracy.
John is someone who made it from the blue-collar world into the white-collar world with a blue-collar attitude.
As with other lucrative blue-collar occupations, these trades take training, but they promise steady work and better-than-average wages.
Mrs Clinton also enjoys a strong lead among one of her party's most important constituencies, white blue-collar workers.
What that does is cuts it off to the blue-collar everyman with the American Dream kind of thing.
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Of course, Senator Biden does have a lot of blue-collar appeal that might play well in those states.
For 20 years Stan Greenberg, a Democratic pollster, studied the blue-collar white voters of Macomb County near Detroit.
Rothman also started running training sessions for his 325 small stores, many in rural, blue-collar towns like Secaucus, N.
About 20 miles up the coast from Long Branch, largely blue-collar Union Beach appears to be a leading candidate.
Quinn moves around the stage with an air of bemused, blue-collar exasperation under the direction of Rebecca A. Trent.
Oil and gas companies directly employ more than 2 million Americans, from blue-collar workers to well-trained scientists and engineers.
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