It has long been said that politics "makes strange bedfellows," but some such alliances are surely stranger than others. Take, for example, the emerging collaboration of working-class voters with the ...

But around the same time, the writers John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira published The Emerging Democratic Majority, which predicted a decades-long advantage for the party of educated professionals, ...

The share of Republicans and Democrats from working-class jobs who went on to hold seats in state legislatures remained below 2% in 2023. In contrast, approximately 50% of the U.S. labor force is made ...