![]() ![]() ![]() Sure, we have paid some limited attention to understanding the plight of the (black) urban poor, but not so much to that of the (white) poor in regions of severe resource extraction and small towns and cities in former industrial regions. Except for the surprisingly brief 1960s War on Poverty and the attention Bobby Kennedy and others brought to greater Appalachian and the deep South poverty, however, most of the rest of the United States has long ignored problems of class and region. Many white poor are evangelicals, some former coal miners, and some unemployed factory workers. Opioids are commonplace and drug overdoses are increasing. White male mortality is rising, longevity is falling, and households are broken. Whites feel dispossessed, let down, and discriminated against by their own government. We are of late flooded with commentary about the white poor in the United States. xv and 460 pp., illustrations, notes, index. xiv and 354 pp., notes, bibliography, index. ![]()
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