What happened to the white working class? It finally figured out that Democrats didn't even want to be LBGFs. It's hard for them, because the Democrats used to love the working stiff. Nobody really intended it, but the bottom line on liberal politics for the last half century is that the white working class were the suckers that had to pay for liberal race politics. Thomas B. Edsall, who's a good guy at heart, wants to look a little deeper, and he stumbles over a point I've been making for a while. He writes in the New York Times about the growth, since the Sixties, of “expressive individualism,” the move among the youth from a “utilitarian self” to an “expressive self.” According to Andrew Cherlin, professor at Johns Hopkins, The utilitarian self... accepts “conformity to external standards -- which included doing what your supervisor at work told you to do.” This conformity was essential for industrial work,...(Read Full Article)