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To: Ilaine who wrote (19933)	2/25/2002 9:48:05 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

White men who were not elite. Many, if not most, of whom were racist, and more violently opposed to the non-whites and recent immigrants who were competing with them for jobs at the bottom of the ladder. You would need a ton of data to argue (a) that most white "non-elite" men were racist (you could argue that populism grew among those men but that's hardly the same as arguing that "most" were racist) and (b) that "non-elite" white males were more likely to be racist than elite white males. That latter is extremely complicated. I suspect you could argue that elite white males are less likely to voice racist sentiments and join racist groups but that would not be the strongest of evidence that they were, thus, less likely to "be" racist. I seem to recall some psychologists book of the 50s or 60s about the "cool" racism of the elite. One parallel. There is a small body of research in family sociology that in a comparison of working class males and upper class males, the working class males are more likely to voice anti-feminist sentiments but to live comfortably in families with a strong egalitarian organziation whereas the opposite was true of upper class males. Makes you stop and think. From the point of view of a factory owner, why not hire the cheapest labor, regardless of color or national origin? You lost me here. I have no idea how this relates to our discussion. Perhaps I need to get my second cup of coffee for the morning. John