Even though I have infinitely more respect for those who live paycheck to paycheck and actually work to provide tangible goods to society over wall street jackasses, business owners, landlords and celebrities, I am really turned off blue collar culture and find it to be really toxic.
Even though most are nice people: the truckers, farmers, construction workers, miners, factory workers, and autoshop people i've all met are all significantly more socially conservative, more likely to make controversial jokes, more upfront & stoic, and generally more dude-broey compared to more financially well off people i know in the white collar spaces I've spent most of my life working at.
I am wondering if this is the result of the capitalist elite's attempts to shove the conservative narrative onto blue collar workers to distract from class conflict, or if there is some need to compensate for their lack of material capital through more “manly” behaviour. Idk what the source is or how to get rid of it, but i think its really important as people who are representatives to the working class to try and relate to them, but i find it really alienating with the way things currently are.