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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am from a poor white trash family in the Midwest.  I was looking forward to reading this book this month.  Sorry to hear it is just so-so.

What boggles my mind (the only person in my family who "got out" with scholarships and went to college, and the only one not on some sort of government aid... I kid you not) is how no one in my extended family wants to improve their lot in life.  I would love some discussion and insights on this.  My husband thinks I was switched in the hospital (his explanation of how I emerged)!  Lol.[/quote]

I didn't consider it just so-so and think you should go ahead and read it.

The insight is that the culture is eroding from the inside out.  I think the disappointment is in the author's ambivalence.  Is he defending this culture or calling it out?  I think it's both.

And then you're left with the same hard question he seems to be facing:  what can be done about it?  His conservative values seem to say that government can't and won't fix it.[/quote]

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