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And a succession of ordinary citizens aired their troubles at the podium: a car worker about to lose his job, a flood victim from Iowa, a laid-off textile worker with huge medical bills, and so on.
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Edwards, the son of a textile mill worker and shopkeeper, was the first in his family to attend college.
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Edwards, who was born in South Carolina, has also made a point of stressing his modest roots, often describing himself as the son of a textile mill worker and noting that he was the first one in his family to go to college.
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If the laid off auto worker in Detroit, or the high school student in Little Rock, or the former textile marketer in Greensboro, N.
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