Left Behind

English

Alternative forms

• left-behind

Noun

Left Behind (plural Left Behinds)

1. A usually socially conservative member of the working class whose income is stagnating or falling in purchasing power.
   • 1983, David Lebedoff, The New Elite: The Death of Democracy, →ISBN, page 31:

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

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

     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.

   • 2011, Gary Jason, Dangerous Thoughts, →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.