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.
He was sitting side-by-side with fellow House Republican ideologues John Boehner and Eric Cantor as they risked the full faith and credit of the United States, regardless of what it would mean for the middle class, jobs and women's rights.
Writers vied to see who could heap the most scorn on the allegedly boring conformity of that receding decade, drawing supercilious caricatures of middle-class men and women of the era as superficial, plastic figures.
As these women rise into the middle class, the men stay in the lower class, becoming less compatible.
"If you want someone who will fight for you and who will fight for the middle-class families and working men and women who are sick and tired of having their parents and grandparents pay higher prices for prescription drugs than anybody else, then I want to fight for you, " he said.
Their audience, the new middle class of the Industrial Age, wanted pretty pictures, full of lovely landscapes, beautiful women with flowing tresses, lavish interiors.
To many young women, particularly in the urban middle class, the high-profile global beauty contests are keys to a more liberal environment as well as new opportunities.
This is the city that built the greatest middle class the world has ever known. (Applause.) This is the city where women rolled up their sleeves and helped build an arsenal for democracy to free the world. (Applause.) This is a city where the great American industry has come back to life and the industries of tomorrow are taking root.
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Many middle-class white men and women have set off across the world to make a difference.
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Second, women's earnings have become essential to the average middle-class household.
During much of that time, the United States pursued policies and a cultural outlook that prevented minorities and women from competing with middle-class breadwinners for high wages and secure jobs.
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The British suffragettes, who often exchanged battle tactics with their American cousins, were led by clever middle-class women such as Christabel Pankhurst (1880-1958), who gained a first-class law degree, but was barred from practising in all-male courts.
The expansion of government and service industries has opened new opportunities for women, of which working-class and middle-class men seem less able to avail themselves.
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