Forget culture wars: It's the economics, stupid!

Citation

Morrison J (2022) Forget culture wars: It's the economics, stupid!. blogs.lse.ac.uk [blogs.lse.ac.uk] 04.11.2022. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/who-are-the-left-behind-forget-culture-wars-its-the-economics-stupid/

Abstract
Residents of left-behind areas are often portrayed as part of a working class that views multiculturalism and liberal social attitudes as ‘alien and threatening’. However, in his research, James Morrison found that it was the economistic (underinvestment in schools, housing, the NHS, public transport, and jobs), rather than culturalist, diagnosis of ‘left-behind’ discontent that shaped the narrative adopted by newspapers and politicians.