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Transcript: Why Blue States Are Better Places to Live

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This is a lightly edited transcript of the September 24 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video here or by following this show on YouTube or Substack . Perry Bacon: And I’m Perry Bacon, the host. I’m joined by one of my colleagues, Monica Potts, who writes about class politics, the working class, which we’ll come back to in a little bit, and policy, particularly on economics as well. So Monica, thanks for joining me. Monica Potts: Yeah, thank you so much for having me. Bacon: So we’re going to talk about two pieces you wrote recently that I thought were really important and interesting. The first is—I tell people all the time, “We don’t write the headlines,” but in this case I think the headline does capture something about the piece: “The term working class is useless.” So talk about—in political coverage, the term working class is used. But that really is a synonym for what? Why is the term working class being used improperly right now? What are we talking abou