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Since FDR, 70+% of our presidents have come from some where in the middle class. Of course, if they happen to have lived through the great depression, that middle class isn't what WE are accustom to.



...and a couple just barely qualified at that.

The expansion of the middle class was, by and large, a product of the unions. Prior to that is was pretty much the 'haves' and the 'have nots'. As far as reaching the White House back then, in the absence of wealth, being a military hero was generally the only other route.