Suburbanites (was lbo-talk-digest V1 #3591)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>You are making an inference about Ruy's politics which
>is inaccurate.  He's a friend of mine, so anyone can
>take that any way they like.  (correct spelling:
>Teixeira.  He's of Portuguese extraction, fyi.)
>
>For Ruy the attention to white workers serves the purpose
>of forming a complete notion of class.  It's not that
>he sees them as some crucial vanguard of change in and
>of themselves.  They are conspicuously absent from
>Democratic voting rolls, but that goes to the Democrats'
>failure to address class.  Ruy's point is that the
>Dems have traded white workers for "suburbanites,"
>and pocketbook class issues for their stands, such
>as they are, on things like choice, gun control, and
>affirmative action.  I think there's a lot to this,
>as could be gleaned from my posts.
>
>Ruy is pretty data-driven.  I don't believe his
>results are biased by his preconceptions.
>
>mbs

Aren't the majority of suburbanites white workers?

Yoshie