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[quote=Anonymous][quote]It's because Republicans hate poor people who don't look like them. That's all there is to it.[/quote]

This is harsh but not unfounded.  Read "The Sum of Us---What Racism Costs All of Us" by Heather McGhee.  In the mid 1950s, arguably the apogee of the white American middle class, most white middle class Americans were very much in favor of constructs like the universal basic income as well as a broad range of what we would today consider Scandanavian style social democratic spending. The white (male) population of that era benefitted from a strong labor movement as well as entitlements like the GI Bill which made college affordable to many men who would not have been able to attend otherwise.  The author's thesis, however, is that as soon as the Civil Rights Act and other non-discriminatory laws were enacted, broad support for government funded social goods began to decline, because people resented benefits going to people who did not look like them.

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