W has dredged up the old stereotype of right wing blue color workers, invoking the NY construction trades' attack on Vietnam war protestors in 1969. This was an ana,lous incident. As W ought to know, working class/blue collar America turned against the Vietnam war earlier and more decisively than the "liberal" elite -- after Tet in '68, well before the elite organs switched after Cambodia and Kent & Jackson State in 1970. And of course this was because it was working class folks who were being killed in Vietnam. The NY construction trades were anomalous. jks  Steven McGraw <stmcgraw@vt.edu> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">At 12:20 PM 2/12/2003 -0500, you wrote: >> Again, why focus on construction workers? What do you accomplish? > > >To show that "blue collar worker" in this country is constructed based >on cultural identity rather than political-economic interests. That >explains their rabid nationalism (aka patriotism) and willingness to >beat up those pointed to them as the enemies of the state. > >Wojtek > > Answer the entire question instead of ignoring what you find inconvenient, or at least answer one of the other posters who has made the same point. Once again, quoting me: "Since you admit that there is plenty of support for the war among intellectuals, liberals and wealthy elites, why are you singling out the working class? What's the point?" </BLOCKQUOTE> <hr size=1>Do you Yahoo!? <a href="http://rd.yahoo.com/O=1/I=brandr/vday03/text/flow/*http://shopping.yahoo.com /shop?d=browse&id=20146735">Yahoo! Shopping</a> - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day