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The Missing White Poor [View all] kpete Mar 2014 OP
They have nothing to complain about, they are privileged (nt) The Straight Story Mar 2014 #1
How dare those whites complain. bigwillq Mar 2014 #3
I think poor whites fall into a special category of being "non-white" all their own hedgehog Mar 2014 #4
Oh, I've just about heard it all here theHandpuppet Mar 2014 #19
+1 I've seen plenty of it here too. nt Live and Learn Mar 2014 #27
Did you miss this bit? Number23 Mar 2014 #6
more like doesn't want to learn JI7 Mar 2014 #7
Thank you. Says right there in the damn article that despite there being in sheer numbers Number23 Mar 2014 #12
Even worse, JoeyT Mar 2014 #20
Really wish I could rec your post Number23 Mar 2014 #22
Third choice: Non-poor whites refuse to accept that they could become poor themselves, DebJ Mar 2014 #31
No, saw that right away The Straight Story Mar 2014 #8
the media portrays poor blacks and hispanis as lazy, welfare queen, living off the govt types JI7 Mar 2014 #13
Sadly, that is true. No doubt. nt AverageJoe90 Mar 2014 #30
"The media recognizes that whites are privileged and are not truly poor or downtrodden....." What? AverageJoe90 Mar 2014 #28
people don't look at them and think "welfare queen" lazy living off the govt as they do JI7 Mar 2014 #9
Edit: Never Mind! AverageJoe90 Mar 2014 #25
Funny, I think of skinny, gap toothed white folks in the south Warpy Mar 2014 #2
I think of Appalachia. nt magical thyme Mar 2014 #5
I have a refrigerator MFM008 Mar 2014 #10
Not a word about privliage. Not a word about race............ wandy Mar 2014 #11
and some are just racist like that fake plumber who was on welfare JI7 Mar 2014 #14
Welfare ended in 1996 Fumesucker Mar 2014 #15
by welfare i meant any type of govt support, not one specific program JI7 Mar 2014 #16
Why use the name of a program that ended over 15 years ago then? Fumesucker Mar 2014 #17
welfare is used to describe something it's not just the name of something, JI7 Mar 2014 #18
Good stuff. AverageJoe90 Mar 2014 #29
Growing up poor and white in the south, I didn't realize we were "missing" Recursion Mar 2014 #21
Its pure dog whistle politics that have disappeared the White poor from America's psyche MrScorpio Mar 2014 #23
True. But the .1% don't even care about *white* poor people all that much.....nt AverageJoe90 Mar 2014 #24
and when the media covers white poor, they go out of their way to SoCalDem Mar 2014 #26
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