[mallory4]

Lisa--yes it is a stereotype, but it is also a true description of the way many, many people live. I can list as well as the next person the historical and economic factors that have gone into creating the problems facing the rural poor in the mountains, but knowing the cause doesn't take away the reality. There is nothing in that description that isn't seen daily in that community.

Here in an urban northern city, the pool of poor white people who lose their children to foster care and state adoption don't live with gamecocks and old stoves in the yard, but they still have many cultural and sub-cultural differences from the group of middle-class white people who are adopting their children. If the two groups were equivalent, one of them wouldn't be the source of kids and the other the recipient.