Why the Working-Class Realignment Is Permanent
It wasn't 2016. It wasn't 2024. It was thirty years of bipartisan trade policy and the slow death of the wage premium for a high school diploma.
If you want to know why a Pennsylvania plumber votes nothing like he did under Reagan, start with the county-level employment data and stop asking him about culture-war tweets.
If you want to know why a Pennsylvania plumber votes nothing like he did under Reagan, start with the county-level employment data and stop asking him about culture-war tweets.If you want to know why a Pennsylvania plumber votes nothing like he did under Reagan, start with the county-level employment data and stop asking him about culture-war tweets.
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