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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I"m from a small town in middle America that is awfully hillbilly. (though there are no hills around - I'd call them more country).   I've had this on my to read list and have seen the guy on TV talking about the book and read a few reviews. What what I've read, it seems like your impression - it's an interesting story of one family, but doesn't necessarily translate well - is the general impression.

So not sure how much I will push to read it - maybe if it pops up at the library.  The one thing I will say is that if you're not related or otherwise familiar with white people like this, you don't really get it.  My personal experience living in DC surrounded by white liberal educated folks is that there is a huge disconnect from white, lower class, more poorly educated folks.  [/quote]

Perhaps you think there's s disconnect , but there's something you need to understand about white liberals —they keep and settle scores . For decades white liberals were demonized in this country by the very people cited in that book and their handlers of the Republican Party . Godless, immoral , welfare distributors , anti American , and so on and so forth.
                        Today the chickens have come home to roost, does it cross those people minds that the social programs that they virulently opposed because it was going to benefit those 'other people ' or because government is bad might have gone a long way in lessening their burden? Suffering? Pain? Furthermore , unlike their 'God fearing' white conservatives counterparts , liberals have known and cknowledged that those 'other people' have a unique history in this country and faced atrocities that even the poorest of the poor whites hasn't and still doesn't face till this day and as such public policy need to be cognizant of these historical factors and do whatever it takes so members of that community get a fair and legitimate shot at real EMANCIPATION

Long story short, white liberals today have no use for the kind of whites described in that book and rightfully so.[/quote]

Not All white liberals feel that way. I certainly don't. 
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Yeah thanks Mr/Mrs obvious but perhaps the absence of 'some' gave you cover . Newsflash , white liberals don't need hillbillies to win the White House [/quote]

You seem unnecessarily hostile. Can you remind me of when your were appointed spokesperson for white liberals? Because you don't sound like any white liberal that I know and I know a lot. I think it remains to be seen whether white liberals need hillbillies to win the White House, but it sure wouldn't hurt to have them. For decades they were the backbone of the Democratic Party. Regardless, there are priorities beyond winning the presidency and -- speaking for myself -- hillbillies are as much as a concern as any other working class group.
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