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[–] ex-redd 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

Southern white elites are terrified of poor whites and black workers joining hands

Sounds like kike talk to me

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[–] VandalayIndustries 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Good read, thanks for posting

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[–] Omnidempotent 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Interesting to see jacobin posted here. Thanks for the read.

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[–] BlackSheepBrouhaha 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

Poor and working-class whites have almost always been left out of our country’s narrative because in many ways acknowledging their existence is a denial of the American dream, a festering wound in the heart of American exceptionalism. Poor whites in the South have been written out of history for a very political reason: the idea of a “solid white South,” wherein all classes of whites vote the same way and have the same interests, allows the propagation of the Confederate “Lost Cause” narrative, as well as the incorrect (but persistent) notion that all whites are elevated by racism.

This historical lie allows the extremely high levels of inequality between whites in the region to be minimized and generally ignored. Simultaneously, it psychologically unites white Southerners today over a mythical, romanticized, “shared” past as proud Confederates.