"Big White Ghetto" Q&A

What does the average coal miner make (wages per hour)? $25 an hour

Who are some types of people a person might find in the big, “White Ghetto.” Drunks, those who do and deal drugs, people working to get out of there, people that use items such as Pepsi to buy a pack of cigarettes, jobless

Why do you think the author calls it the “Big White Ghetto.” It is a poor and filthy community with the majority of the people being white

 

What does the author suggests “keeps the underclass in place?” Welfare programs and how it prevents people from “trying.”

 

The author suggests that “poverty is the natural condition _of the human animal___.”

 

How does Pepsi play into this? Pepsi is used as a currency in The Big White Ghetto. People buy cigarettes or drugs with cases of Pepsi.

 

List five things/facts you took away from this article.

1. People use Pepsi as a form a currency
2. Parents actually pull kids out of school to collect money from Social Security
3. Women in the drug-economy who give pop or sex for drugs are $12.99. Cheap deal.
4. Town gossip consists in white ghetto consist of who’s cooking meth or whose meth lab burned down or who’s growing weed.
5. There are white ghettos after all.