Those blue-collar, factory-working, Bud-drinking Americans voted largely for Ronald Reagan.

Reagan won the blue-collar vote 47-46 in 1980, and 44% of union households voted for him.

"'American' ends with 'I CAN', not 'I RAN'", a reference to the Iranian hostage crisis and Carter's perceived handling of it.

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Tikki

reagan, bush, nixon or republican

it was the US becoming a net oil importer after 1970, successive oil shocks, increasing competition from Japan and domestic industry that had gotten complacent due to lack of competition and ceased to be competitive. Reagan's economic policies probably didn't help very much, but it was a process that had already started.

Why you would make an attempt to let him off the hook for destroying the American worker is really weird.

As for the oil, Carter told us what the country needed to do and reagan laughed at him. reagan and bush sold our jobs to Asia where they work for one tenth the wages. The only ones who got rich were the internationalists who loved reagan and now make excuses for him.

in ways that a lot of people seem to not really understand. The increasing automation and per-worker productivity in manufacturing for instance teds to mean that fewer workers are required for the same level of output. In point of fact, manufacturing employment as a percentage of total employment has been in decline since the 1950's: