Working class communities may have almost as little relation to one another as they do to the mainstream middle class. While the entire working class is a large group of people, as defined by work and status in our larger society, each community may still be marginal to mainstream middle class culture. In working class communities, “them” describes not only the professional middle class (an enduring and cross-ethnic Other) but a variety of other “thems” as well, and only one, very specific, “us.”
