The statement exacerbated racial tensions in the predominately working-class city of 36,000.

About 55 percent of the 60,000 residents of this largely working-class city are black.

As in many other poor and working-class cities around the country, the illegal numbers, which were known as policy, had flourished for decades.

"I do think the impression is that Boston is more of a working-class city," she said.

Even more remarkable is the support the program has garnered in the rural, working-class city of 144,000.

In Kingston, a working-class city of 23,000, people are outraged.

In Kingston, a working-class city of 23,000, people were stunned by the latest developments.

Now the latest immigrants in this eternally working-class city are pressing for political respect.

Still, some theatergoers in the working-class city, accustomed to more political and intellectual fare, are not happy.

Bell is a working-class, largely immigrant city with 38,000 residents.