I have mentioned before, but I grew up in the Industrial Midwest during the Golden Age of the (unionized) White Working Man.

A time when you just needed to finish high school, find a job at the steel mill, refinery, coke plant, chemical factory, etc., and you could afford to keep your wife at home, buy a house and a new car every few years, put your kids through state college, etc., all on a workingman’s salary.

Minimal “economic anxiety”. And those guys were every bit as racist as they are today.