The Great White Culture War
9th August 2018
David French does a deep dive.
With each passing year, I grow more convinced that Charles Murray’s Coming Apart and J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy represent two of the best vehicles for understanding our times. Though they’re not specifically political, they help us understand the profound differences between different white American communities — differences that are often exacerbated in our polarized age.
French makes a good point, that the great battle these days isn’t between whites and non-whites but between Cloud People white and Dirt People whites.