Americans hate poor people.

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36. And many white, rural poor hate nonwhite poor

...indeed, nonwhites in general. In fact, many whites in general (not all) just don't like nonwhites, period.

You can't really extricate race from class. The poorest white conservative in Armpit County, Alabama still sees himself as being higher up on the ladder than a person of any socioeconomic status who is not white. Not sure how much of this exists now, but there was even a time when poor Southern whites of "Anglo" background saw themselves as being ahead of "ethnic" white immigrants from Italy, Poland, Portugal, Ireland, etc. Jews (there is a question of whether it's a religion or a "race&quot are considered "white" by our census categories (which is so basic as to be a box of 8 Crayola colors), yet there are still some Christians who consider themselves more "white" than they are. And still Protestants who see themselves as above Catholics (and vice versa), Catholics who consider themselves above the Jews, all kinds of "whites" who see themselves above the "Muslims"...

Like the late Rodney King said, can't we all just get along?