Why would poor whites maintain a system that controlled poor Black people?

poor whites were still above them

Explanation:

it still gave them a sense of power because things were created like the grandfather clauses that made poor whites better than poor blacks and game rich whites somebody to be the scape goat

rosevelt. 1973. "slaves everywhere"

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