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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Also, as someone who grew up amid the poor, uneducated white people of Appalachia, I'd like to see some attention to the &quot;culture problem&quot; there. Multi-generational poverty, domestic abuse, rampant drug abuse, terrible schools, high teenage birth rate, hopelessness--everything Paul Ryan and his type decry in urban black populations[/quote]

This has been a problem for lots longer than the inner city problem--I think.  I don't have an answer to this.  Jobs would help.[/quote]

Republicans blame job loss when white communities are besieged by the pathologies above. When black communities suffer from the same problems, Republicans blame the &quot;culture.&quot; In other words, bad things might *happen* to white people, but black people cause their own problems. Same old story.[/quote

Yes, I always argue the &quot;tailspin of culture&quot; one sees in rural, largely white communities is what African-Americans began to experience in the late '60s (remember folks, last to hire -&gt; first to fire).  The deindustrialization of the NE and Midwest began first and rippled outwards.  The &quot;tailspin&quot; of African-Americans in the early waves was most notable as they had fewer assets, less intergenerational wealth, and smaller established networks to tap.  The fall out of good paying working class jobs has been going on four decades - it just took a lot longer for more whites to get caught up in the bust.[/quote]

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