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Poor white trash book6/28/2023 The distortions were caused by the attitudes of the governing class in Britain and in the colonies towards the poor. Yet it was the British class structure seen through a distorting mirror. In the 200-odd years before the American Revolution, the British set up a class structure in their colonies that was based on the class structure back home. The USA inherited a class structure from the earliest British colonisers. The British class system through a distorting mirror But it isn’t, and this book clearly demonstrates it never has been. The USA lays claim to being the land of opportunity where “all men are created equal”. It is a very well written, very well researched account of class – or at any rate one class – in America. (Though there was a five-day break in the middle when Mrs SC and I were in back in Brussels.) White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg (Penguin, 2017)
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