![]() ![]() Yet, these marginalized whites have always been near the center of major debates over the character of the American identity, as crucial to the rise of the Republican Party in the early XIX century as they have been to the presidency of Donald Trump in 2017”. They have been labelled Clay-Eaters and Waste People, an underclass that runs contrary to the American Dream that hard work begets success. The 400-year Untold History of Class in America, we read that “The white poor in America have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlements to today’s hillbillies. ![]() On the cover of Nancy Isenberg’s White Trash. Poor whites make up though for over 43% of the entire US population living below the poverty level, more than any other racial or ethnic group. ![]() Over 11% of white population in the US lives below the poverty level. ![]()
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