White working class

White working class (frequently abbreviated WWC) is the portion of the working class composed of white people.
It is contrasted with the white liberal middle class (frequently abbreviated WLMC) as a voting block and an exemplar of intra-racial class conflict
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: The WLMC know that the WWC hate “The Other” - the blacks, the Asians, the Muslims. But it does not occur to them that they themselves are the greatest Other-haters of all, in their revulsion of the WWC who are too close to themselves for comfort, and whom they use to project upon their own sins, their own real and reverse racism.
Increasing controversy surrounds the focus on the white working class as a marketing demography, cultural group and voting bloc. A recent study by the Brookings Institution has recently concluded that the white working class is being displaced by the white liberal middle class[http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/papers/2008/04_demographics_teixeira/04_demographics_teixeira.pdf]. However, in both the 2004 and 2008 elections, Presidential candidates Howard Dean and Hillary Clinton were subject to criticisms by their own party for "pandering" to white working class voters bordering on "racism". Accusations of reverse-racism were leveled at Barack Obama during his presidential campaign when he was seen as attacking the values of working class whites in Western Pennsylvania.
In her recent book "Working-Class White: The Making and Unmaking of Race Relations" sociologist Monica McDermott reports field work studying working class race relations in urban settings focusing on tensions between working class whites and other groups.
Recent electoral results in Europe indicate rising influence of working class whites as a voting bloc to be courted by some major working class parties.

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