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Speaking as a construction guy, I'll reiterate that point! The most white collar, expensive cities are typically teeming with construction jobs. Much of that's about how fast the city is growing and how much it's investing in itself.
Probably not anymore, but Brooklyn and Queens used to be the most stereotypical blue collar places in America. NYC always had multiple faces, and the NYC version of each face was in the past, if not the premier version of each, close to it. Lower Manhattan, the face of white collar America. Midtown, shopping and Broadway. Upper East, and West Sides, the urban wealthy. Harlem, the face of Black America. Brooklyn, and Queens, ethnic blue collar America.
Probably not anymore, but Brooklyn and Queens used to be the most stereotypical blue collar places in America. NYC always had multiple faces, and the NYC version of each face was in the past, if not the premier version of each, close to it. Lower Manhattan, the face of white collar America. Midtown, shopping and Broadway. Upper East, and West Sides, the urban wealthy. Harlem, the face of Black America. Brooklyn, and Queens, ethnic blue collar America.
Back in the 80's NYC was very much a blue collar city. D.C was as well.
Jacksonville probably. I think most people are pretty familiar with the blue collar culture of the other three.
Yeah, and a lot of people have negative views of the three cities blue collar culture IMO. In the cities that are in the poll, their blue collar culture is hardly highlighted at all. In the movies and on TV, they only highlight the uber rich and the glamorous parts of those cities.
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I voted LA, Oakland and Seattle. LA specifically because of the image shift that Hollywood and the fashion industry has done for LA. LA was a HUGE factory city. The aerospace industry was a huge employer. Especially in world war 2. The making of airplane parts and wheels etc. This industrial past of LA is highlighted in only a few film and TV shows. Then at one point, Firestone and other tire companies had huge factories in South Central. South Central being kind like a geographic hub of LA county was an idea location for these factories. And then you have the port of Los Angeles and Long Beach being huge ports for trade, and having plenty of longshoremen/blue collar type jobs. Samething with Oakland. Especially during WWII. A huge reason why so many Black people left Texas, and Louisiana for Oakland and Los Angeles was because of those blue collar port jobs and then for some of those factory jobs during WWII during the great migration. LA and Oakland are blue collar towns at heart. Seattle samething, with the Lumber industry. The whole flannel “grunge” aesthetic in the 90s came from that PNW lumber industry I believe. Tech/emphasis of Higher Education, Fashion and Hollywood have dramatically shifted the image of those 3 cities in the last 50 or so years. The reason why I didn’t vote Boston, NYC, or any other northern city, is because the “blue collar” image of these cities is still fresh on people’s minds. There’s still a huge portion of ppl who have never forgotten about the blue collar euro immigrant past of Boston and NYC. It’s still used as a trope in movies. When was the last show set in Boston that was actually about Harvard? Shows set in Boston usually follow some blue collar Irish descended dude struggling to find his way. With NYC, even in shows that are about white collar yuppies, you still have counter shows that show the everyday subway taking blue collar New Yorker. You still have shows where the blue collar NYC construction guy is still a trope.
Probably not anymore, but Brooklyn and Queens used to be the most stereotypical blue collar places in America. NYC always had multiple faces, and the NYC version of each face was in the past, if not the premier version of each, close to it. Lower Manhattan, the face of white collar America. Midtown, shopping and Broadway. Upper East, and West Sides, the urban wealthy. Harlem, the face of Black America. Brooklyn, and Queens, ethnic blue collar America.
Yeah the stereotype of Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and the Bronx is literally.. blue collar.
LA & Seattle. These two conjure up images of the Kardashians, Amazon, etc. and a lot of people have forgotten about the blue collar population.
I'm shocked Boston is winning the poll though. I really associate Boston with that whole The Departed, Southie, Irish Catholic image but perhaps other people don't.
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