Working-class voters fear equality and value inequality

Evidence

But, so I shall argue, many members of the working classes do not want equality. They are afraid of it. In some ways they already seek to escape from it. Equality for the working classes, like freedom for the middle classes, is a worrisome, partially rejected, by-product of the demand for more specific measures. Inequality has values to them which have been overlooked. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2139

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels Thomas Frank’s ‘What’s the Matter with Kansas’ and modern working-class conservatism debates. — connects to: Working-class people desire welfare-state measures while fearing equality itself. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology: Key Readings, 2139; Working-class Brexit votes were not self-conscious class agency — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2044
• SEED: Article angle: re-examining why egalitarian policies face resistance from the very groups they intend to benefit.