The unfortunate class known as poor whites in the South is descended mainly from the convicts and indentured servants with which England supplied labor to the southern plantations before slavery days.
It was assumed, on no historical basis whatever, that the highlanders came from the more venturesome or desperate element of the "poor whites," and differed from these only to the extent that environment had shaped them.
So the western piedmont and the mountains were settled neither by Cavaliers nor by poor whites, but by a radically distinct and even antagonistic people who are appropriately called the Roundheads of the South.
This hostility may be explained in several ways: The element of poor whites in the Klan did not approve of negro education; all negro churches and schoolhouses were used as meeting places for Union Leagues, political gatherings, etc.
As a matter of fact Tillman comes of a respectable middle-class family; but it is his part to show himself the coarsest and most vituperative of Poor Whites.
Former Poor Whites and descendants of Poor Whites can be found in every Northwestern and Pacific state, and constitute a valuable element of population.
The truth is, as the evidence adduced in this chapter proves, that the term "Poor Whites" is a misnomer; that a class of poor and backward people which has existed for decades in many parts of the South is now disappearing.
And there is actually springing up a large class of non-voting white men not unlike the powerless "poor whites" of ante-bellum times.
The old slave-owning aristocrats believed that they were made of finer clay than the "poor whites," that their rule was peculiarly beneficent, that if anything should happen to depose them the country would go to ruin and destruction.
The "poor whites" of the South are among the most ignorant people on the face of God's earth.
Through this ignorance, the "poor whites" of the South were ruled even more despotically than the slaves; and through this ignorance the slaveholders of the South were enabled to commit the greatest of wrongs against humanity.
They engendered prejudices between the "poor whites" and the negroes, never losing an opportunity of fostering the hatred and enmity which they were soon enabled to create.
All, except the "poor whites," looked to this supreme group for ideals and for standards of manners and conduct.
These "poor whites" lived in squalor, and without the aspirations or virtues of the superior orders.
In eastern Virginia this was the class known as the "poor whites"; and it was more distinct than either of the two classes above it.
Let us follow Miss Viola LeMonde and Miss Henrietta Harvey in their effort to organize a Sunday School among the "Poor Whites.
He belonged to that part of the population called "poor whites.
He and his house were typical of the poorest of the "poor whites.
The lot of the 'poor whites' in Kentucky is indeed unfortunate.
The Morleys had become long since "poor whites," but Ann Walden knew their traditions.
After the Civil War these people became "poor whites" and were ground between the nether millstone of their more prosperous neighbours and that of the blacks, until they sank to the lowest level.
She often said to herself, "poor whites," in order that the significance might be fully understood.
Fortunately, there are not in the South great numbers of poor Whites except in the large cities and at the ports.
Much is said against the “poor Whites” or “poor white trash,” as the white proletariat is called by the black proletariat.
They do not help one another in distress as much as poor Whites do.
Be that as it may, it is very evident that the highest interest of the "poor whites" who bore the brunt of the fighting was to be conserved by the collapse rather than the triumph of the cause for which they fought with unsurpassed gallantry.
Thus the stars in their courses fought for the "poor whites" in fighting bitterly against them.
It is a sort of Red Indian Reservation planted in the midst of a vast horde of Poor Whites--colonials at that.
After the social revolution there will be no Reservations; the Redskins will be drowned in the great sea of Poor Whites.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poor whites" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
