left behind

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of leave behind

plural Left Behinds · alternative left-behind

1. A usually socially conservative member of the working class whose income is stagnating or falling in purchasing power.

   For the Left Behinds, Kennedy was evoking the most traditional values: patriotism, discipline, sacrifice for the common welfare.

   1983, David Lebedoff, The New Elite: The Death of Democracy, →ISBN, page 31

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   The New Elite and the Left Behinds are not necessarily synonymous with other pairs in confrontation: liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, upper-middle class and lower-middle class.

   2004, David Lebedoff, The Uncivil War: How a New Elite is Destroying Our Democracy, →ISBN

   Two major political issues originally split the New Elite from the Left Behinds: the civil rights movement and the peace movement arising out of the Vietnam War.

   2011, Gary Jason, Dangerous Thoughts, →ISBN