It was based on the theory that the average voter never attended college, didn't live on the Ease or West coasts, wasn't a school teacher or soical worker, or a poor minority working a low paying job or on welfare.

Instead, he was a tool and die maker, living in Topeka, Kanas, had no more than a high school education, at best, was affluent and intensely patriotic.

Also, writing about blue collar workers in the early 1970s, a Boston psychiatrist wrirtng in, "The New York Times Book Review" said: "They hate Jews and blacks and  and people on welfare. They hate protesters and homosexuals and do-gooders and outsiders. But nore than anything else, they hate women and spend much of their time pursuing them.

Are the above the absolute truth? Of course not, but I am afraid there is some truth in them, especially at the time they were written.

I was a blue collar worker all of my life. I have been a motion picture projectionist, warehouse worker and taxi driver. Yet, those of you who have read my book, "I Thought I Would Never Make It Throuth The 4th Grade' know that I have strong liberal views.

Now that blue collar workers are an minority, it will be interesting to see if they can change.