I think it's almost entirely racism. They don't want "their" money to pay for "those people," i.e. anyone browner than they are.
I don't actually see much classism; it's poor whites who are vocally complaining about this [1] -- people who could very much benefit from Obama's policies. White people aren't protesting because they're comfortably well-off and they don't want poor whites to get "their" money; they're protesting because they're poor too and yet they hate the idea that any of "their" money could go to keeping blacks healthy or whatever.
So, IMO, almost 100% barely veiled racism.
[1] Although they are, of course, supported and egged on by very corporate interests which are definitionally classist. But there's a question of who the dog is and who the tail is, and who is wagging whom.
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I don't actually see much classism; it's poor whites who are vocally complaining about this [1] -- people who could very much benefit from Obama's policies. White people aren't protesting because they're comfortably well-off and they don't want poor whites to get "their" money; they're protesting because they're poor too and yet they hate the idea that any of "their" money could go to keeping blacks healthy or whatever.
So, IMO, almost 100% barely veiled racism.
[1] Although they are, of course, supported and egged on by very corporate interests which are definitionally classist. But there's a question of who the dog is and who the tail is, and who is wagging whom.