White Working Class

Notes

Chapter 1

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Married..._with_Children; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Simpson.

2. Ruy Teixeira and Joel Rogers, America’s Forgotten Majority: Why the White Working Class Still Matters (New York: Basic Books, 2000), 11. Teixeira and Rogers call the white working class the “forgotten majority,” because “we haven’t heard much about them of late and . . . they are . . . about 55 percent of the voting population” (p. x).

3. Ann Case and Angus Deaton, “Rising Morbidity and Mortality in Midlife among White Non-Hispanic Americans in the 21st Century,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 112, no. 49 (2015): 15078–15083; J. D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family ...