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> social status coincides very closely with race in the US So I'm curious about this statement. As I wrote elsewhere in this thread, twice as many whites than
by angelzen 5y ago
> social status coincides very closely with race in the US
So I'm curious about this statement. As I wrote elsewhere in this thread, twice as many whites than blacks are in poverty. If social status were almost substitutable for race, how come there are 17M white people in poverty?
https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/poverty-rate-by-raceethnicity https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/poverty-rate-by-ra...
Edit. For reference, a nice databook from Pew Research, with income distributions by race in 1970 and 2016, though lacking absolute numbers presentation:
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2018/07/12/appendix-a-income-distributions-of-whites-blacks-hispanics-and-asians-in-the-u-s-1970-and-2016/ https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2018/07/12/appendi...