lower-middle-class

She will be raking in money on the speech-making circuit, has a book deal, and is being courted as a national tv or radio "hostess", and if she can further inflame the frightened lower-middle-class mostly white people who are still "afraid" that Obama is a Muslim terrorist or some such nonsense, she will do it!

Palin set to let the tweets 'fly' 2009

While affluent consumers are spending freely, lower-middle-class shoppers, like many of those buying Jordans, have proved increasingly frugal.

Nike's Footwork Yields Long Lines Dana Mattioli 2011

There are almost 600 million people living south of Mexico's Rio Bravo, and a majority of them are either lower-middle-class or poor.

The Lost Century Mary Anastasia O'Grady 2011

You might think this problem only lies with the lower-middle-class redneck types, but they're the unwashed republicans that make up the majority of the party.

Leahy on Sotomayor: 'Stop the racial politics' 2009

We see the line that separates our Prius, hovering silently at the crosswalk, from the corner, where 50 lower-middle-class children wait for the bus.

On Being a Bad Mother 2009

He was a lower-middle-class boy made good after a dreadful childhood, when his father was imprisoned for debt.

Our Dickens Judith Flanders 2012

These phenomena reflected a growing sense of cultural solidarity among lower-middle-class whites — a solidarity defined by a yearning for American “authenticity,” a folksy realness that rejects the global, the urban, and the effete in favor of nostalgia for “the way things used to be.”

The End of White America? 2009

We see the line that separates our Prius, hovering silently at the crosswalk, from the corner, where 50 lower-middle-class children wait for the bus.

On Being a Bad Mother 2009

Palin perfected the "art" of Evangelical self-banishment and then took victimhood to new levels of success by cashing in on white lower-middle-class resentment of America's elites.

Frank Schaeffer: Sarah Palin: Professional (Wealthy) "Victim" Frank Schaeffer 2011

It helps that there are affinities between author and subject – a lower-middle-class south London childhood, for instance – that were absent from Lodge's earlier novel about Henry James.

A Man of Parts by David Lodge – review 2011