ABSTRACT
This brings us to the emergence of a white underclass. In raw numbers, EuropeanAmerican whites are the ethnic group with the most people in poverty, most illegitimate children, most women on welfare, most unemployed men, and most arrests for serious crimes. And yet, whites have not had an ‘underclass’ as such, because whites who might qualify have been scattered among the working class. Instead, whites have had ‘white trash’ concentrated in a few streets on the outskirts of town, sometimes a Skid Row of unattached white men in the large cities. But these scatterings have seldom been large enough to make up a neighborhood. An underclass needs a critical mass, and white America has not had one.
