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Poor whites have been isolated from mainstream white Southern culture and have been in turn stereotyped as rednecks and Holy Rollers, discriminated against,...
Protestant residents of the Bible Belt, mostly Anglo-Saxon in origin, form part of the most ethnically homogeneous region of the United States. Yet if ethnicity defines a group of racially and historically related people who share a common culture, Southern poor whites obviously...