Trumpism and the changing American working class

Jamelle Bouie at Slate.

What Pundits Keep Getting Wrong About Donald Trump and the Working Class

It's not just white guys with East and South European names, any more.

People of color make up more than a third of America’s labor force, and they’re a large and growing plurality of working-class people in particular. 

What?

Does he know what that word means?

Anyway, to continue.

As of this year, 23.5 percent of working people are Hispanic; 15 percent are black; and 3.5 percent are Asian American. 

That’s a total of 42 percent. 

In 10 years, they’ll constitute nearly half of all working-class Americans. 

As it stands, the youngest cohort of working-class Americans—at 54.4 percent white and 45.5 percent nonwhite—is almost there. 

And close to half of all working-class people—across all races and ethnic groups—are women working in service jobs as well as traditional blue-collar professions.

Only a minority of the working class are in Trump's corner.