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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s hard to be a poor white kid because they’re typically in rural areas. [/quote]
It's a demographic that nobody cares about, whether on the left or right.

The US is a weird country, because working class/poor people are divided politically between the two parties, mostly based on race. Which is intentional by the people in power. We've never had a true "labor" party like they have in European countries. One of the ways this line between poor White and non-White people is maintained is by parceling out public benefits (such as education) by race, rather than by social class.

So, progressives hand out educational opportunity to minorities in exchange for their vote, and poor, rural White people are kept angry and separated from the people they have the most aligned interests with, which keeps them voting Republican.

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test optional and FGLI hook helps poor white kids, and if you stopped being resentful about it, you'd see that.[/quote]

Let me know when there’s equivalents of the Posse program or elite universities doing outreach to middle school/high school kids for rural poor whites[/quote]

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