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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also, his dad was a bus driver and his mom was a legal secretary. How can you argue that he doesn't have working class roots?

Is he not allowed to advocate for the working man just because he achieved success in his career path?[/quote]

And somehow now he’s a cowboy from middle America ;0)

Bus driver = union job
Legal secretary = good salary

He was solidly middle class, likely UMC.

There’s no need for an affected accent. That’s an act.

And, perhaps most importantly: what exactly has he done for the working class aside from appropriate a persona to sell records to them? [/quote]

Bus driver = UMC? WTH are u smoking?[/quote]

bus driver sin this area make north of 80k a year [/quote]

A NYC bus drive made at most $2/hr in 1955.

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924054549476&view=1up&seq=171

$2 in 1955 is now worth $19.44.

https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1955?amount=1

So at most his dad was bringing home $80/wk, which is $777/wk, which is 40K a year.

And the pay for bus driver in NJ was likely lower than in Manhattan.

And he wasn't always a bus drive, he was also a factory worker and cab driver, where he probably made less.

You can thank me now for my research,
[/quote]

Those are all union jobs with union benefits.

My in laws bought their first home in NJ for $25k in the 1950s. School teachers.

The Boss wasn’t poor. Maybe white kid boardwalk class, but not poor.[/quote]

In the 1950's, being working class didn't equate to being poor like it often does today.[/quote]

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