working class
I have a certain sympathy with this Labour MP Jon Trickett arguing in a Jacobin interview that the party must fight a class war than a culture war. He represents.
Far too often in our imaginations and in our media, we imagine the working class as a white man, probably with an out of fashion mustache, in a union jacket.
Way too often in American political rhetoric, the working class means "white people." That's especially true among pundits who often talk of politicians needing to appeal to "the working class,".