White Trash

Comprehensive, but what, in the end, is the point? That we aren't a classless society? Pretty sure we knew that. On the other hand, maybe that's because I'm a Yankee living in the South . . . Seriously, though, the book feels repetitive, on the one hand, and shallow on the other. As a life-long middle-class person, the question I have is why don't the “white trash”–a term I never use–want to rise above their class? At one time, they couldn't. But now?