Poor White Republicans was Re: white trash

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Mon Feb 24 14:05:44 PST 2003


Kevin Robert Dean wrote:
>
> Not sure where Woj was trying to go when he was talking
> about "consumption levels", but it does seem odd that there
> are poor whites who generally vote Republican...it would be
> a good question as to "Why"?

Why not?

And answer in terms of the world as they experience it and reenact it day to day, not in terms of what a Ph.D. can see is in their interest.

What percentage of "poor whites" vote anyhow?

And why should they? (Again, in their terms.)

Why should they do any damn thing but get by day by day?

Carrol



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