 We call these folks working class often, but they really had a toehold in what we also call the middle class. They had a little taste of what the American dream was like, a home, a place for your family, a future, a belief that your kids might even do better than you did, and no idea that this big thing called globalization was going to come along and send their jobs to non-union states and to Mexico and, of course, over the course of decades, send the jobs all over the world from the United States.