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In the 1890s, at the height of the Gilded Age, Southern states rewrote their constitutions to disenfranchise poor whites and Black citizens alike, specifically to crush the rising Populist movement.
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Sarita Gupta, Time, 2 June 2026
The lyrics went beyond Evers’ white-supremacist killer, indicting an entire system that brainwashed poor white Southerners into hatred.
—Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2026
Jennette McCurdy, in particular, rose from the same poor white background as Temple and was driven by the same sort of stage mother.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
In plain English, a poor white neighborhood and a poor Black neighborhood have more in common with each other than either does with a wealthy neighborhood.
—Darvio Morrow, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Aug. 2025
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Sarita Gupta, Time, 2 June 2026
The lyrics went beyond Evers’ white-supremacist killer, indicting an entire system that brainwashed poor white Southerners into hatred.
—Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2026
Jennette McCurdy, in particular, rose from the same poor white background as Temple and was driven by the same sort of stage mother.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
In plain English, a poor white neighborhood and a poor Black neighborhood have more in common with each other than either does with a wealthy neighborhood.
—Darvio Morrow, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Aug. 2025
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“Poor white.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poor%20white. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.
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