On Wed, 15 May 2002, Gordon Fitch wrote:
> Certainly there were many people who felt that way before 1980, but the
> preponderance of public opinion was, I think, still pro-Welfare, at
> least when Welfare helped White people.
As far as I know, up until the day of its transmogrification into TANF, two-thirds of the people on welfare were still white. But most of them were rural and invisible to the public discussion.
Michael