Reply #171: So true. I remember a professor of mine,

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one of those Earth Mother types, with the peasant dresses and gigantic, dangly earrings, who was always going on about the oppressed natives of one place or another but had only boundless contempt for the "rednecks" living in poverty within a mile or two of the university where she taught.

That's a common experience for blue-collar students who make it into college.