America's Forgotten Majority Why The White Working Class Still Matters

by Teixeira, Ruy; Rogers, Joel Townsley

• ISBN13: 9780465083992
• ISBN10: 0465083994
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-07-05
• Publisher: Basic Books

Summary

A powerful look at the real America, dominated by America's "forgotten majority"-white working-class men and women who make up 55 percent of the voting population

Author Biography

Ruy Teixeira is a senior fellow at The Century Foundation. He is the author of several books, including The Disappearing American Voter, and of numerous articles in publications ranging from scholarly journals to the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Atlantic Monthly, The American Prospect, and The New Republic.Joel Rogers is Professor of Law, Political Science, and Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he also directs the Center on Wisconsin Strategy. The author of many academic books and articles, he is also a contributing editor at The Nation and Boston Review, and a longtime social and political activist. Ruy Teixeira is a senior fellow at The Century Foundation. He is the author of several books, including The Disappearing American Voter, and of numerous articles in publications ranging from scholarly journals to the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Atlantic Monthly, The American Prospect, and The New Republic.Joel Rogers is Professor of Law, Political Science, and Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he also directs the Center on Wisconsin Strategy. The author of many academic books and articles, he is also a contributing editor at The Nation and Boston Review, and a longtime social and political activist.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introducing America's Forgotten Majority---And Why It Is the Key to Our Political Future	1	(22)
How the Forgotten Majority Enriches the Conventional Wisdom on U.S. Politics	23	(106)
Did the Forgotten Majority Matter in the 1990s?
The Elections of 1992 and 1994	67	(28)
Did the Forgotten Majority Matter in the 1990s?
The Elections of 1996 and 1998	95	(34)
Does the Forgotten Majority Still Matter?	129	(18)
Mobilizing the Forgotten Majority	147	(28)
Afterword	175	(12)
Appendix	187	(6)
Notes	193	(24)
Acknowledgments	217	(2)
Index	219