I don't know if I'm a devil or an angel around here right now.

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12. People are complex, and broad brushes are just about useless.

I am white, I've worked blue collar jobs. I agree with you.

I worked in a steel mill in Ohio that is now gone. At the time, the work force was ethnically quite diverse, reflecting different waves of migrants that came to the town for jobs. Much of the workforce was of East European origin, but it also had the largest Puerto Rican population outside of New York City in the US, or so I was told at the time. Many African-Americans, too. It was very much like the environment portrayed in the movie "The Deer Hunter". I was not aware of any ethnic tension.

I was there in the early 70s, when Watergate hearings were on TV. Guys used to wear stickers on their hard hats advertising candidates for various union positions. As the hearings went on, stickers appeared on their hard hats saying "Impeach Nixon". These were former Nixon supporters, and they were the most upset with him. I always thought Nixon a crook, and was not surprised in any way, but they were really hurt. This mill essentially went out of business in the mid-80s; globalization has been going on for decades before NAFTA, the Koreans were killing the US steel industry at that point.

Trump promises to bring back the old days, which is a very appealing idea to these former workers, but it is impossible to do. He is blatantly lying, but many don't care because he represents their point of view. Not all, some are better informed and smarter than that.

I've never seen any single demographic be any single thing. People are complex