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Senior Writer @NRO. Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, ex-lawyer. Opinions 100% my own, but you can share them. Not the Cardinals broadcaster.

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    1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 18 May 2019

      I suppose it helped that my family had role models, people who had worked their way up in one generation after another, some as coal miners or cops, some as inventors or public speakers - and whether successful or not, none left the Church.

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    2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 18 May 2019

      People went where the work was. My mom's brother moved to California with his job 60 years ago. My younger brother moved to Virginia, then Texas.

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    3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 18 May 2019

      My dad's brother was a construction worker after a tour in the Marines, no college, settled in the Bronx. But he still took construction jobs that took him to Israel & Iran, traveled to Brazil, Hong Kong, Australia, died in the Philippines.

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    4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 18 May 2019

      Anyway, the narrative of a secular, mobile, front-row America & its back-row opposite has a lot to teach us. I just object to its overdetermination.

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    5. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 18 May 2019
      Replying to @baseballcrank

      Question: how many of your relatives/ancestors do you know or believe to have been members of labor unions? The mid century CIO was mostly forged by white, Catholic workers and led by Phil Murray, who preached the virtues of flag/church/union.

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    6. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 18 May 2019
      Replying to @yeselson

      My dad & his brother & their dad were definitely union men. But it was a different economy.

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    7. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 18 May 2019
      Replying to @baseballcrank

      Oh it was. Curious—which unions?

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    8. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 18 May 2019
      Replying to @yeselson

      Dad, NYPD. Uncle, construction union. Grandfather joined the longshoreman's union, I think - he'd been a coal miner before that. Other grandfather was a sailor, don't believe he was ever union.

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    9. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 18 May 2019
      Replying to @baseballcrank

      Yeah, demographically/chronologically makes sense. And can’t argue that it’s not a different economy. But unions still do what they have always done (except the core sector of the economy have changed): protect workers working conditions/raise their living standards.

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    10. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 18 May 2019
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      It is said, and you might know the axiom, that 20th century urban Catholicism presented three avenues for male advancement: the Church, the police force and the union.

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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 18 May 2019
      Replying to @yeselson

      My grandfather was offered the Church, but chose the coal mines instead. My dad always said when he joined the force in 1956, given that they were union men, you couldn't find a Republican in the NYPD; by the time he retired in 1986, you couldn't find a Democrat.

      12:51 PM - 18 May 2019
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        1. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 18 May 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          Yes indeed. That would actually be the topic for a very interesting book.

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