On the Unpopularity of Leftish TV shows....

Gar Lipow lipowg at sprintmail.com
Tue Sep 10 19:11:40 PDT 2002


On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 16:02:19"Nathan Newman" <nathan at newman.org> said
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> First, there just aren't many poor white men-- most of lower class are women
> and people of color. Only 18% of white men have incomes of under $30,000 per
> year. So with 37% of the population being non-hispanic white men, we are
> talking about basically 7% of the population that is in this prototypical
> poor white male category. It would be nice to get more of them and I am all
> for promoting NASCAR and gun culture if that will pull them back on the
> economic issues, but the real key is to mobilize the real working class
> constituency in the United States-- which is overwhelmingly female and of
> color.
>

Ummm Nathan you did not actually intend to imply that only the poor are working people did you? I know you know that a lot of people who are not poor are still working class. You phrased it that way because Wojo talked about "lower class males" and so you ended up talking of the poor while using the term "working class" right?



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