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2016-06-25 Home Front: Culture Wars

“White Trash” — a cultural and political history of an American underclass

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-06-25 04:12|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 However, always good enough to recruit or draft (and bury) to keep the 'right' people in power.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-06-25 08:02|| 2016-06-25 08:02|| Front Page Top

#2 That AirStream costs more than a new W-wide.

Posted by Shipman 2016-06-25 08:51|| 2016-06-25 08:51|| Front Page Top

#3 But the Left-progressive elites love their country. Just not 90% of the people...

Posted by Steve White 2016-06-25 10:14|| 2016-06-25 10:14|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm am a proud member of the redneck and white trash class.

Posted by JohnQC 2016-06-25 10:18|| 2016-06-25 10:18|| Front Page Top

#5 As am I JQC, and the last thing we want is to be identified as anything but American.

Posted by 49 Pan 2016-06-25 10:20|| 2016-06-25 10:20|| Front Page Top

#6 I grew up in a trailer park. You can take the boy out of the trailer but you cannot take the trailer out of the boy.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2016-06-25 11:55|| 2016-06-25 11:55|| Front Page Top

#7 Yeah, Jed Clampett is my all time favorite TV character too.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2016-06-25 11:57|| 2016-06-25 11:57|| Front Page Top

#8 Would be interesting to get her perspectives on Planned Parenthood and it's impact on urban America.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-06-25 12:08|| 2016-06-25 12:08|| Front Page Top

#9 The elite may like to think America is locked into a class-based society, and there is certainly an element of it, but it is not true. Clinton was white trash, for starters. Others take a generation to change. And it is just as easy to slide from the elite.

Posted by Glenmore 2016-06-25 12:08|| 2016-06-25 12:08|| Front Page Top

#10 Clinton was white trash, for starters

Still trash

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-06-25 12:10|| 2016-06-25 12:10|| Front Page Top

#11 Clinton is still white trash. Like I said, you can take the boy out of the trailer park...

But he is an example of hard work and brains making good, er, or bad, just on a bigger scale.

I think the way upward mobility works is that one generation after another works hard, keeps the family together and passes an ever accumulating wealth to the next generation. White or black, you don't get it by sitting around feeling sorry for yourself. It is hard.

That's why the phrase "white privilege" and Affirmative Action are particularly disturbing to a poor white boy trying his level best to make his way in America. Watch out for the backlash.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2016-06-25 12:18|| 2016-06-25 12:18|| Front Page Top

#12 The problem with upward mobility these days is that the Proggy Bastiches keep taking an ax to the ladder to protect their own status.

See also rent seeking.

Posted by AlanC 2016-06-25 13:14|| 2016-06-25 13:14|| Front Page Top

#13 Heck - my Grandfather died thinking the "Dukes of Hazard" was a documentary.

Posted by Bangkok Billy 2016-06-25 13:33|| 2016-06-25 13:33|| Front Page Top

#14 Just what does it take to get a Journalism Degree these days anyway?

Posted by newc 2016-06-25 13:42|| 2016-06-25 13:42|| Front Page Top

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