I'm sitting here weighing the idea that you could get rid of a lot of what's toxic about the word "working-class" (as well as misleading, hypocritical, inconsistent, etc.) in ordinary discourse by just committing to saying "poor" instead
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Hell this goes back to before the Founding, with Benjamin Franklin famously making the ladies of Paris swoon over his buckskins and coonskin cap, despite having been raised as a printer in Philadelphia
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I suspect he was just trying to be an exotic savage foreigner from the sexy New World ;)
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