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When the author of “Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010” faults poor whites’ morals today, he unwittingly joins an earlier tradition of blaming the poor for their condition, whether they be black in the 1960s or white at the turn of the 20th century.
That was a fantastically interesting read. It's one of the things we don't hear about from most historians, the fact that society wasn't just racist or sexist in this vague notion called the past, present but that they were utterly misguided.
That being said, it was not the strongest article ever written.