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To: Lane3 who wrote (65860)	5/15/2008 12:16:41 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543699

But to respond to the notion as to what represents "white working class," in the most formal sense, plumbers in Vermont would not be included It wouldn't. Plumbers aren't working class? As an aside, I had read that "working class" is demographic code for "not college educated." Which is different from being political code for "great unwashed." Unfortunately, Karen, you clipped that post so my point is lost. As you know, there's a technical, fairly constricted notion of the working class which excludes plumbers as small business entrepeneurs, the petty bourgeois. But it's more often used much more loosely to include them. And clearly Marshall is using it in that way. So long as one is clear on the use, I fail to see the problem. And, actually, I've found the "working class" term used fairly infrequently on the tube. More often commentators (and politicians, for that matter) use "working Americans." As if the rest of the country doesn't work. That's the one that seems to me to slip into it's own parody.