Although they were often white members of the lower middle class or “skilled and semi-skilled blue-collar workers,” these MARs are “less an objectively identifiable class than a subjectively distinguished temperament.” That attitude involved a sharp feeling of being exploited by and condescended to by the rich and having to foot the bill for minorities: “a sense of resentment and exploitation, mainly economic but also broader, that is directed upwards as well as downwards,… distrust of decision-makers in state and economy as well as fear of the economically depressed,” and “the frustration of
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