Left Behind

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Left Behind (plural Left Behinds)

  1. A usually socially conservative member of the working class whose income is stagnating or falling in purchasing power.
    • 1983, David Lebedoff, The New Elite: The Death of Democracy, →ISBN, page 31:
      For the Left Behinds, Kennedy was evoking the most traditional values: patriotism, discipline, sacrifice for the common welfare.
    • 2004, David Lebedoff, The Uncivil War: How a New Elite is Destroying Our Democracy, →ISBN:
      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.
    • 2011, Gary Jason, Dangerous Thoughts, →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.