The Death of Working-Class America
Two major contributors to the economic decline of the white working-class: Scores of millions of third-world immigrants, here legally and illegally, who depress U.S. wages, and tens of thousands of factories and millions of jobs shipped abroad under the label of “globalization.”
Another factor in the crisis of middle and working class white men is the plunging percentage of those who are married. Where a wife and children give meaning to a man’s life, and to his labors, single white men are not only being left behind by the new economy, they are becoming alienated from society.
.. We all have seen the figure of 72 percent of black children being born out of wedlock. For working class whites, it is up to 40 percent.
.. In the popular culture of the ’40s and ’50s, white men were role models. They were the detectives and cops who ran down gangsters and the heroes who won World War II on the battlefields of Europe and in the islands of the Pacific.
.. In Hollywood films and TV shows, working-class white males are regularly portrayed as what was once disparaged as “white trash.”
.. White males, now down to 31 percent of the population, have become the only Americans against whom it is not only permissible, but commendable, to discriminate.