Oh geeze, Alan...

Wish I'd been here this week to get into this but I've been down (up) in the mountains of Western North Carolina all week but drove back today thru the mountains north of Wilksboro an' there are one heck of a lot of poor white folks living in some of the areas we drove thru... But, hey, there are one heck of a lot of poor people (black and white) in the South...

Ummmmmmm, my only advice is don't go into this area in the class you are teaching without reading Janies entire thread on "Poverty"... I mean, read every last word...

Yeah, this goes way beyond the Greensboro ambush... Way beyond... Greensboro wasn't as much poor white folks gunning down balck folks, it was about stupid/ignorant white folks gunning down black folks... Please don't use these racists as part of your disussion about poverty in the South... It's nuthin' more than a sideshow... Horrid, yes... Explaination of poverty in the South, no...

I'm not too sure when you need to have yer presentation but I'd say that that you might be over yer head here, ol' Buddy... This ain't an easy story to tell... It ain't all about Greensboro... It ain't all about the War for Southern Independence... It ain't all about the way the colonies were developed... It ain't all about resources and who settled where and when... It ain't all about slavery... It ain't all about the "Southern way"... It ain't all about 14-b of the Taft-Hartley Acy...

It's about all of these!!!

I mean, it just can't be boiled own into a simply explained story...

I think I have as good an understanding as anyone but I wouldn't attempt to explain poverty in the South (black or white) in any forum that wasn't an entire semester 3 credit college course... Anything less is like the dog that won't hunt...

Bobert