The presidential election revealed not a unified working class but multiple, competing tensions: urban versus rural, cosmopolitan versus provincial, and privileged elites versus the 'disinherited' (poor whites who feel rigged out of opportunity).
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Nancy EisenbergEvidence Quote
“the election really played off a whole series of things that were seen as opposites and as being contested and that is the idea that we have an urban and rural divide we have the language of cosmopolitan versus provincial we have the idea of privileged elites versus how many people who imagine themselves as both upscale rednecks and white trash who would see themselves as the disinherited”
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Nancy Isenberg - White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America— Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter CollegeCreated: 8/12/2026, 6:12:44 PM
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