In What Way Have Poor Whites from the Southeastern US

Question

In what way have poor Whites from the Southeastern US been subject to structural violence?
A) They fought (and were injured and died in) the civil war on Southern slave owners' behalf
B) They served as a cheap and easily expendable and replaceable source of labor for coal mine owners
C) They worked as sharecroppers for rich landowners and then, after tractors displaced them, they headed west to become migrant farm laborers
D) They have serviced and been 'cannibalized' by the economy in all three ways mentioned
E) This is a trick question: White people have never been subject to structural violence.

Accepted Answer

Poor Whites from the Southeastern US have been subject to structural violence in multiple ways including fighting in the Civil War on behalf of Southern slave owners, serving as cheap labor for coal mine owners, and then being displaced from sharecropping by tractors and becoming migrant farm laborers. These are all examples of how economic and political structures have worked against them and perpetuated their poverty and marginalization.