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
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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Cf. Brits in the USA suddenly developing plummier accents and mannerisms because Americans go nuts for that stuff.
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