Blue Collar Conservatives: Recommitting to an America That Works (26 page)

Internal Revenue Service, the (IRS),
41
,
170

International Brotherhood of Teamsters,
120

Iowa,
3–4
,
19
,
21
,
115–16
,
140
,
152
,
156–57
,
180–81

Iowa Republican
,
181

Iron City beer,
63

Italy, Italians,
14
,
65
,
129

It’s a Wonderful Life
,
35

It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good
,
42

J

Japan, Japanese,
128

Jefferson, Thomas,
167

Jensen, Wendy,
180–82

John Paul II (pope),
83

Johnstown, PA,
14

K

Kasich, John,
112

Keck, Tony,
116

Kennedy, John F.,
6
,
51

Kentucky,
58–59

Key Club, the,
30

Keystone pipeline,
70
,
149

Kirkwood Community College,
140–41

Korean War,
14

Kotkin, Joel,
9–10

Kristof, Nicholas,
58–59

L

Latin Builders Association Academy (LBA Academy),
138–39

Laudner, Chuck,
180

Leave It to Beaver
,
130

Lee, Spike,
90–91

Left, the,
28
,
33–34
,
40–41
,
43
,
5
,
72–73
,
113
,
173
,
179

libertarians,
24
,
26
,
41
,
74

Lincoln, Abraham,
9–10
,
40
,
48

Little League,
13
,
30–31
,
125

Little Sisters of the Poor,
112

Louisiana,
149

M

Madison Avenue,
79
,
81

Mahoning County, OH,
148

Main Street,
130
,
158
,
174

Manhattan,
64

manufacturing, manufacturers,
15
,
143
,
146
,
148

     
loss of jobs in,
6
,
17–18
,
32
,
119
,
143–44
,
150

     
plan to strengthen jobs in,
36
,
84
,
139–41
,
151–57
,
169
,
174
,
185

Marcellus Shale,
147

March of Dimes,
116

Marist-McClatchy poll,
29

marriage,
18–19
,
70
,
80

     
children outside of,
19
,
72
,
93

     
decreasing rate of,
19–20
,
39
,
72
,
92–95
,
130–31
,
145
,
171

     
importance of,
14
,
16
,
19
,
34
,
44
,
48–49
,
59
,
71
,
83–84
,
130–31

     
plan to strengthen,
36
,
96–103
,
171–72

Martinsburg, WV,
14

M*A*S*H
,
63

Massachusetts,
3

McCaughey, Betsy,
120

Medicaid,
75–76
,
100
,
110–11
,
113–14
,
122

Medicare,
100
,
109
,
173

     
importance of,
60
,
74–75
,
159
,
173

     
Obamacare and,
122–23

     
prescription drug benefit,
48
,
74

     
reform of,
75–76
,
160
,
163–67

Miami, FL,
139

Michigan,
6
,
119
,
147

Middle America,
3
,
156–57

middle class, the,
28
,
120

Minnesota,
158
,
188

Model Ts,
131–32

Modern Family
,
131

Morehouse College,
91

Mormon Church, the,
34

Mother Teresa of Calcutta,
183

Motorolas,
118

Moynihan, Daniel Patrick,
89

“Moynihan Report,”
89

MSNBC,
63
,
95

Murphy Brown
,
95

Murray, Charles,
64–65
,
89
,
99–100
,
133

N

National Assessment of Educational Progress,
136

National Association of Manufacturers,
151

National Public Radio,
64

Nazism,
40

New Deal, the,
74

“New Lower Class,”
64–65
.
See also
Fishtown

Newman, Alexia,
94

“New Upper Class,”
64
.
See also
Belmont

New York City, NY,
137

New Yorker
,
64

New York Times
,
58–59
,
63

Nineteenth Amendment,
48

Nittany Lions,
16
,
138

North Dakota,
147–49

North Philadelphia, PA,
134

O

Obama administration,
25
,
60
,
108
,
112
,
149–50
,
152–53
,
156–57

Obama, Barack

     
2008 election and,
71
,
109

     
2012 election and,
2–6
,
8
,
32–33
,
41–42
,
71

     
policies of,
3
,
6
,
27
,
33
,
40–41
,
47
,
53–55
,
70–73
,
83–84
,
91
,
97
,
102
,
105–23
,
149
,
151
,
156–57
,
169–70
,
179

Obamacare,
55
,
57
,
76
,
165–66

     
2012 election and,
2–3

     
implementation of,
2

     
repeal of,
76
,
84
,
105–23

Occupy Wall Street,
3

Ohio,
6
,
30
,
36
,
69–71
,
143
,
147–49
,
178

P

Paine, Thomas,
79

Palo Alto, CA,
133

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,
106
.
See also
Obamacare

Pell Grants,
138–39

Penn State University,
16
,
138

Pennsylvania,
15–16
,
128
,
146–47
,
178
,
188

Pentagon, the,
169

Pew Research,
28

Philadelphia,
77
,
80

Pittsburgh, PA,
16
,
146

Pittsburgh Pirates,
15

Planned Parenthood,
94

poverty,
20
,
56–57
,
78
,
87

     
American Dream and,
24–25

     
causes of,
31
,
42–43
,
87
,
89–91

     
how to rise out of,
34
,
44
,
59–60
,
65–66
,
71–73
,
77
,
83
,
89–91
,
85
,
171

     
War on Poverty and,
44
,
76–77
,
100

Providence,
83

Pullman-Standard Company,
15

Q

Quayle, Dan,
95–96

R

Reagan Revolution, the,
52

Reagan, Ronald,
40
,
42–44
,
52–53
,
83
,
91

regulations,
52
,
61

     
the economy and,
17
,
43
,
150–53
,
155

     
Obamacare and,
105–6
,
108

     
reform of,
152–53

religion, religious practice,
41
,
46
,
92
,
102
,
112
,
185

Republican Party, Republicans.
See also
GOP

     
blue collar conservatives and,
32
,
37
,
77
,
123

     
coalitions within the,
41
,
49–50
,
77

     
demographics and,
8–10

     
elections and,
1
,
4–5
,
9–10
,
47

     
history of the,
9–10
,
47–48
,
141

     
policies of the,
6–10
,
18
,
32
,
41–45
,
51–53
,
59
,
83–84
,
91
,
97
,
112
,
121
,
123
,
163

Right, the,
73
,
129
.
See also
conservatives
;
GOP
;
Republican Party, Republicans

Rolling Rock beer,
16

Romney, Mitt,
1
,
3
,
5–6
,
8
,
41–42
,
45–47
,
64
,
70

Roosevelt, Franklin,
40
,
74
,
117

Roosevelt, Theodore,
48

Rust Belt, the,
9
,
146–47
,
149

S

“safety net,”
33
,
89
,
98
,
160

     
importance of the,
56–59
,
74
,
85
,
105
,
112
,
159
,
184

Salt Lake City,
18
,
34

Sam’s Club,
64

San Francisco,
18

Santorum, Aldo,
14–15

Santorum, Bella,
123
,
181

Santorum, Catherine,
14–15

Santorum, Karen (née Garver),
1
,
3
,
16
,
24
,
132–33
,
138
,
172

Sargent, A. A.,
48

secular, secularism,
2–3
,
183

shale,
36
,
67
,
70
,
147–49
,
177

single mothers,
34–35
,
57
,
65
,
72
,
87
,
91–92
,
98

Smith, Iain Duncan,
77–78
,
83

socialist, socialism,
2
,
122