Maybe that comes from a blue-collar background; I just don't know.

Both his mother and father were of Polish origin and had blue-collar backgrounds.

I was from a blue-collar background, nothing educated or intellectual.

"It's like, all of a sudden, players from blue-collar and rural backgrounds are into vicuña."

Having turned his blue-collar background into an advantage, Ralph begins accumulating a small but loyal and compassionate following.

Leno is the reliable, smiling, hard-working kid from a blue-collar ethnic background.

He comes from a blue-collar background and was raised in an urban environment.

What he got involved in, prosecutors have said, was a life completely unlike his blue-collar background.

He's from a blue-collar background like myself; my parents were both teachers, so we had that in common.

We were both around the same age, both from blue-collar backgrounds, and we understood each other.