My father was born and raised in Brooklyn.
He has spent his adult life in Tippecanoe County, Indiana. Tippecanoe County is 89% White, has a median income of $38,652, and among its biggest employers are Caterpillar, Suburu and Alcoa.
From space, the area around my father's house - A - looks like this:
More often than not, he is clothed in denim (top, middle and bottom):
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On weeknights and weekends, he can be found:
(1) Riding his John Deere lawn mower
(2) Fixing one of his clunkers---his last purchase, for $500, was a Buick Park Avenue with 330,000 miles on its odometer
(The moon is only 240,000 miles away)
(3) Repairing our well
(4) Firing a gun at rodents
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When I asked my father if he was "blue-collar" or "white-collar," he was, at that moment, wiring the house so it could run on auxillary power from an external generator. Here is where he slid the bar:
(0) Blue Collar-------------------------------------------------------------98%--White Collar (100)
His explanation: "I'm a professor. It doesn't get more white-collar than that."d
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Jeremy
P.S. A recent photograph of my father:
