Why Obama may triumph in working-class Pennsylvania
In 1991, at age 17, I fled Bucks County, the overwhelmingly white, working-class region in southeast Pennsylvania where I grew up. I left because the life of the working class was brutal and I wanted no part of it. I cringed at the racism and xenophobia that seemed to rise out of the anxieties of precarious labor. I desperately hoped there was some alternative to coming home each day looking as… » Full Story on Salon.com
