In Politico, Professor Pruitt Explores Key, Politically Relevant Distinction Within Working Class

In an expansive June 24 essay in Politico, Professor Lisa Pruitt writes about a subtle but consequential divide between the “settled” and “hard-living” elements of the white working class, and how Republicans seem to understand it but Democrats largely do not. Read the essay. 

Lisa R. Pruitt, Martin Luther King Jr. Professor at UC Davis School of Law, is a scholar whose recent work explores the legal relevance of rural spatiality, including how it inflects dimensions of gender, race, and ethnicity.  Pruitt's work also considers rural-urban difference in transnational and international contexts. She is the recipient of the law school’s 2020 Distinguished Teaching Award.