Women and African American had it off worse. Women got paid less than men even when they had to do more work, and African Americans had to put up with subordination because of their job as domestic and just because poverty didn’t make the color line go away. The working class poor had many different groups, including mill workers, domestics, and rural migrant workers. Although these groups would not have identified themselves together they had common beliefs and obstacles because of their poverty. Due to the lack of material wealth and short dangerous lives, people placed and emphasis on family. All these groups also had a hard time of advancing because there was very little economic mobility available to them, in part because of limited education. Poverty effected the way people in the New South lived and how they viewed life, in unique ways sometimes without regard to race, gender, or
Women and African American had it off worse. Women got paid less than men even when they had to do more work, and African Americans had to put up with subordination because of their job as domestic and just because poverty didn’t make the color line go away. The working class poor had many different groups, including mill workers, domestics, and rural migrant workers. Although these groups would not have identified themselves together they had common beliefs and obstacles because of their poverty. Due to the lack of material wealth and short dangerous lives, people placed and emphasis on family. All these groups also had a hard time of advancing because there was very little economic mobility available to them, in part because of limited education. Poverty effected the way people in the New South lived and how they viewed life, in unique ways sometimes without regard to race, gender, or