blue-collar

When he and his siblings — all named after blue-collar jobs — arrived in late July, they were timid.

But once companies develop products based on all that innovation, they’ve tended to move the manufacturing, with its high paying blue-collar jobs, elsewhere, chasing fewer regulations, cheaper energy and a less expensive cost of living.

Such skepticism is the bitter fruit of a generation of Democratic rule in Sacramento, at a time when blue-collar Latinos are finding it harder to achieve the good life.

The forces of real estate and the local police department have invested heavily in transforming this blue-collar fishing hamlet into a tony beach resort.

By the mid-aughts, efforts to draw in more blue-collar visitors had begun to bear fruit, and tax records show more than a million people were coming each year.