They're nothing but privileged brats if you ask me.

Study the eugenics movement of the 20's and 30's and you'll find it aimed at poor whites. Look at jokes about poor whites, even here on Du; pejorative references to hillbillies, country folk being inbred, white trash, trailer park trash, people of Walmart etc.

It's called class warfare. And I've been posting about it for years. The last time I read this kind of mockery on DU I alerted but to no avail.

A thread from 2006, as an example:
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/theHandpuppet/51

and instead complain about being oppressed by the beyonces of the world.

far more poor whites than poor blacks, black people are still far more likely to be represented as the face of poverty than whites and he and his little high fiving pal want to whine about "privilege".

Percentage wise, poverty is far more likely to afflict a black or Hispanic person but it comes in all colors. The fact that the media seems to really enjoy portraying blacks as being impoverished more than any one else is a prime example of the sort of thing this person seems to find so terrifying/annoying.

23% of our poor are African American. A bit less than 13% of our population is. 28% of our poor are Hispanic, 16% of our population is.
41% of our poor population is white. 72% of our population is white.

White folks are the only people that buck the trend of having a higher percentage in poverty than they represent in the population. You can either take one of two things from that information. Either systematic racism has made life harder for people that aren't white, or white people work harder. Only one of those choices is the sane one.

Very nicely stated.

so they don't want to hear that in the media. Because only those who 'deserve' to be poor are poor, and
therefore, they have complete control of their financial lives. Denial.

The media recognizes that whites are privileged and are not truly poor or downtrodden so they show groups that are.

The media is portraying truth - blacks are affected by poverty because of whites and whites cannot be affected to the same extent so why show them as poor/victims?

Makes sense I suppose....

You really believe that there *aren't* white folks who are truly poor or downtrodden? Seriously? GTFO, man! Maybe you oughta visit the Appalachians sometime; hell, the poorest county in the U.S.(or at least was; it's still in the top ten at least.)is in eastern Kentucky.....and it's 95% white!

when they see a person of color.

just look at what the entire republican party campaign has been about.

living in unpainted shacks that were indistinguishable from the ones poor black folks lived in. I probably do that because of the rigid segregation in the south when I was a kid.

I never think of that many inner city folks, they're much better fed and dressed than people in rural areas, if only because charities are concentrated in the cities along with second hand stores. Neither group can afford dentistry, though.

We need to claw back all the wages the 1% stole from us over the past 40 years and we need to do it quickly and permanently.

so OBVIOUSLY im rolling in dough.

Could it be possible that the white poor have somehow been deceived into voting for an ideology that is not in their best interest?

Why So Many Whites Vote Against Themselves
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/earl-ofari-hutchinson/why-so-many-whites-vote-a_b_1342425.html

Or is it just the "Lady Writer on the TV"

while attacking certain others for getting the same.

As a liberal, it still saddens me that some white folks still continue to vote against their own best interests, just because of "them others". Sad shit indeed. Thanks for posting that.

White poverty is hard to miss in some parts of the country...

I posted an article about it earlier!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024677394

find:
overweight smokers with multiple children...and of course a southern accent...and tattoos & piercings.

The "name of the game" is perception.

If they can present "the other" as someone you cannot identify with, you will be less likely to vote for things "those people" need.

I watched "Paycheck to Paycheck" tonight, and although I did feel sorry for the woman in the documentary, I also found myself cringing a bit when she spent $88 at a beauty parlor for a hair dye job, and with the callous way she treated a kitten.