Comrade Sanders Is Wrong: America’s Poorest Counties Are 95 Percent White

The Daily Caller reports:

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders caused a social media firestorm on Sunday when he claimed that “When you’re white you don’t know what it’s like to be living in a ghetto, you don’t know what it’s like to be poor.”
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But according to the 2010 U.S. Census (the last census year), the five poorest counties in the country are all at least 95 percent white.
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The nation’s poorest county — Owsley, Kentucky — is more than 98 percent white. (And it’s only getting poorer.) In 2014, National Review’s Kevin Williams made Owsley the subject of a piece titled “The Big White Ghetto.”
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“If the people here weren’t 98.5 percent white, we’d call it a reservation,” Williams wrote.

Imagine that.