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Welcome to the second issue of the white working class roundtable newsletter.
The 2014 elections generated the most robust discussion about Democrats and the white working class in several decades. In the last few weeks opinion articles about this critical challenge for the Dems have appeared in the New York Times, The Washington Post, The National Journal, Politico, The New Republic, The Washington Monthly, The American Prospect, The Nation, Mother Jones, Slate, Salon, Talking Points Memo, The Daily Beast and a range of other publications.
The first-of-its-kind June 2014 Roundtable on Progressives and the White Working Class- a roundtable organized and published jointly by The Democratic Strategist and The Washington Monthly-played an important role in this unique discussion. The roundtable was directly cited by Thomas Edsall in The New York Times, E.J. Dionne in The Washington Post, Noam Scheiber in The New Republic, Kevin Drum in Mother Jones, Jamelle Bouie in Slate and many other commentaries used data and quotes drawn from the contributions to the June 2014 roundtable discussion.
In late December the Roundtable distributed a significant background paper reviewing this discussion. It is available HERE:
TDS Strategy Memo: The 2014 election produced the most serious discussion about Democrats and the white working class in many years. What Democrats need to do now is to carefully review that debate, identify disagreements about facts and then seek the data to resolve them.
Below is a list of the major articles that have discussed the white working class since the 2014 elections:
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