"How can the Democrats reverse this trend and recapture working class voters?" Dr. Jason Nichols answers by, "By reversing the things that made them lose these voters to begin with."

In the racial and classist battleground between "blue-collar" workers and the "working class", Nichols describes the intense racial and sociopolitical tensions around the Democratic party appealing to multiple audiences of different identities and characteristics. In the fight to be heard and represented, Nichols theorizes that white working class voters, in fear of experiencing oppression, are migrating away from Democratic politics and its establishment. As solutions, Nichols presents the necessity to appeal and provide space for rural communities to have their needs met while also increasing their representation by expanding and diversifying rural Democrats in the political sphere.

Dr. Jason Nichols is an award winning Senior Lecturer in the African American Studies Department at the University of Maryland College Park and was the longtime editor-in-chief of Words Beats & Life: The Global Journal of Hip-Hop Culture, the first peer-reviewed journal of Hip-hop Studies. His work has been featured in publications such as The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Foxnews.com, NBCNews.com and The Hill, and he cohosts the "Vince and Jason Save the Nation" podcast.