Weary wrote:
Really? You're not aware of whites in places like Kentucky, West Virginia, and North Carolina with those problems?
I know you probably didn't mean it so, but please, consider the fact that there are lower classes of each and every race. I'd like to state that my family originates from Kentucky, and many still live there. However, the 'white trash' that you reference does NOT exist in it. Except for an uncle--but he married in and...well, we'll leave it at that. It's all about economic status:
Us: Own and owned coal mines/large farming operations; now do the same and also consist of MD and JD people.
White Trash: Old sharecropper families who never advanced, miners who don't work hard enough to deserve advancement, those without work. These people REALLY like walmart too...
Anyway, point is, let's not generalize that those states contain ONLY white trash...