The party's working-class base is to again be shunned in favour of a mythical "progressive majority".

Gough Whitlam saw that the party had little chance of being elected unless it could expand its appeal from the traditional working-class base to include the suburban middle class.

Labor, with its dwindling working-class base, is appealing to a Britain fast disappearing.

Meanwhile, the party's white, working-class base - especially the Roman Catholics - fled when it became apparent that liberalism now meant racial preferences instead of racial equality.

The erosion of the Unionist vote accompanied this along with the loss of its working-class base.

This causes several problems for the Castithans on Earth, as they don't really have a working-class base to rely on.

Political analysts attribute a good deal of the anti-foreign tone to an increasingly desperate effort by the Social Democrats to shore up their working-class base.

The Waz League claimed a working-class base and shared the populist tendencies of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party.

This policy was controversial, and it cost the NDP support among its unionized working-class base of support.

Mr. Wilson's remarks are all the more appropriate because the wine industry is losing its working-class base.