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Left Behind en · NOUN
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A usually socially conservative member of the working class whose income is stagnating or falling in purchasing power.
The New Elite and the Left Behinds are not necessarily synonymous with other pairs in confrontation: liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, upper-middle class and lower-middle class.
2004, David Lebedoff, The Uncivil War: How a New Elite is Destroying Our Democracy, →ISBN:Two major political issues originally split the New Elite from the Left Behinds: the civil rights movement and the peace movement arising out of the Vietnam War.
2011, Gary Jason, Dangerous Thoughts, →ISBN:For the Left Behinds, Kennedy was evoking the most traditional values: patriotism, discipline, sacrifice for the common welfare.
1983, David Lebedoff, The New Elite: The Death of Democracy, →ISBN, page 31:
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