Sociological explanations about the decline of the working class do not quite suffice: newspapers can reinvent themselves, as the Daily Mail did in the 1970s, when it turned itself into the middle-class women's paper.
Working-class whites do not, however, warm to those who seem to encroach on their privileges.
Moreover, the 11 plus is biased against working class children whose families do not have the money to afford computers or tutoring or who cannot give them a quiet place to study.
"I certainly regret the fact that the BNP could be using language we've used in order to legitimise what I regard as divisive, pernicious policies which will actually do working class people no good at all, " she said.
In Britain today white, working-class children now seem to do worse in school than immigrants.
Mr Montgomery's story is in part about the problem of what to do with a working-class paper in a country in which everybody has decided they are middle class.
Meanwhile, those branches of the state that actually do help the poor and working class should be maintained.
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Now rich enough to retire, the working-class kid from Buffalo just couldn't do it.
There are real stories out there of real people in the real middle class, or overtime-working poor, who do not have access to health insurance.
The Reagan Democrats were blue-collar voters who crossed party lines in the early 1980s to support Ronald Reagan, a Republican, because they thought he would do a better job protecting the working class.
Indeed, accepting this bit of established political wisdom has long led progressives to argue that millions of middle-class, working Americans, who support Republican candidates and policies, do so in contravention of what is in their own interests.
The measure has the egalitarian appeal of forcing our representatives to live as the rest of us do, particularly since the effects of not passing a budget are directly causing working class Americans to go without their pay.
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Yet working-class voters are dismayed that he now says the public finances are stretched and that he cannot do anything on wages.
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The waning of the manufacturing jobs that used to be the mainstay of the working class has created a generation of young males, in particular, who don't know what to do with themselves.
But you will never hear this President say that he is satisfied, and that is why he is focused overwhelmingly on the things that he can do as President and the things he can do working with Congress to increase economic growth, to increase job creation, to increase middle-class security.
And so our challenge is how do we keep growing this economy so that once again ordinary families, middle-class families, working families -- that they can live out that American Dream.
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