re: #34 Backwoods_Sleuth

I started to read Hillbilly Elegy and found first part quite interesting. I recall that the Appalachian folks who moved into our neighborhood in the industrial Midwest were an ethnicity unto themselves; even though they were white, they were distinct from the other WASPy whites or Central/Southern European Catholics who made up the rest of the neighborhood until the blacks and Latinos started moving into it starting in the late 60’s.
And as for “economic anxiety”, I can tell you that even during the Golden Age of the American Working Class, those people were still racist as hell and made no bones about it.