Politicians assuming working-class roots for votes isn’t new – but this year’s election pits the VP picks against each other
JD Vance speaks in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 6 August 2024 and Tim Walz speaks in Las Vegas, Nevada, on 10 August 2024.JD Vance speaks in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 6 August 2024 and Tim Walz speaks in Las Vegas, Nevada, on 10 August 2024., eventually becoming president of a union that represented thousands of workers.
Politicians assuming working-class identities to attract votes is nothing new. But this year’s election pits vice-presidential candidates against each other – ostensibly picked for their “real American” chops – who hold contrasting views of what it means to be a boots-on-the-ground midwesterner. “Midwesterners have historically been on the frontlines of progressive politics and education. Midwesterners also have been innovators in both an economic and cultural sense,” says Diane Mutti Burke, the director of the Center for Midwestern Studies at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.“Midwesterners also are said to be ‘nice’,” says Mutti Burke. “The idea is that midwesterners are often friendly and gracious to a fault.
But Bailey says his first opinions of Vance were formed several years ago, when the senator was in town publicizing his 2016 book,As a pastor and former president of a major workers’ union at Armco Steel, Bailey figured that someone of Vance’s emerging public persona meant that the senator might want to speak with him and other Middletown community leaders, so he gave Vance his business card.
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