Iknow why poor whites chant "Trump, Trump, Trump"...
Interesting article. Even though i am a poor white male who could never voye for Trump, i certainly know my share of poor white males that did, and are proud of it.
Im just a poor white trash motherfucker. No one cares about me.
I
met the man who said those words while working as a bartender in the Ozark Mountains of northwest Arkansas. It was a one-street town in Benton County. It had a beauty parlor, a gas station, and a bar where locals came on Friday nights to shoot the shit over cheap drinks and country music. I arrived in Arkansas by way of another little town in Louisiana, where all but a few local businesses had boarded up when Walmart moved in. In Arkansas, I was struggling to survive. I served drinks in the middle of the afternoon to people described as Americas white underclass in other words, people just like me.
Read a lot more here:http://www.stirjournal.com/2016/04/01/
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)And I'd lovthat the idea of class un the 20th and 21st centuries is dismissed as a communist ric.kr as an invitation to "class warfare."
pbmus
(12,422 posts)judesedit
(4,443 posts)They've been snorting too much peanut butter. Period
GeoWilliam750
(2,523 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)We kinda knew that things changed with Reagan, but I had no idea it was that much.
I don't think marches are gonna be the answer to the obscene wealth distribution, here, and globally.
Duppers
(28,134 posts)parts of it last year, even emailed the link to myself.
Worth the read. Thanks.
bresue
(1,007 posts)Mountain Mule
(1,002 posts)I got referred to your post by a link in another thread, and I've just finished reading the entire thing. Outstanding analysis! If only we can ALL come together and fight the good fight!
SCantiGOP
(13,878 posts)For every voter.
lambchopp59
(2,809 posts)This is a sore subject for me, Californian related to dirt poor southerners, who would have me crucified just for being "liberal", heaven help me some of them find out I'm gay too.