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I spent my first couple of years of life living in a trailer. The Airstream kind, not the kind you see in the trailer parks. Things got better. Before I went away to college, I lived in a nice house in a small town in southern Minnesota. My Dad built a room in the basement so I could have one of my own, and I loved it. A large wooden dresser in it was the one my grandfather made for the trailer many years ago. It had been modified--originally the back had been curved to fit the trailer wall.

My parents would have no idea what the heck you were talking about when you said they were "working class." My Dad was going to college, and would have considered himself a professional. He went into the Army after that, and I lived a lot of other weird places as a baby.

The funny thing about "working class" is whenever I ask anyone to actually quantify the concept, such as income level, type of work, things like that, it gets pretty quiet. Kind of like when you ask a liberal where the income cut-off is for "wealthy."

But if you're a smart politician and keep things vague enough in your speeches, everybody from the McDonald's worker to the white-collar guy in the cubicle with two cars and a three-bathroom home will picture themselves when you throw out the term "working class."

Basically it's another variation on "us." Those other guys are "them."

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