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I learned recently that it is no longer polite to say that people are poor. To avoid hurt feelings, you should refer to them as "economically disadvantaged."
New Mexico's back country in the 1890s had plenty of souls that were downright poor, even dirt poor, and to be accurate, there was no other way to say it.See the full content of this document
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Poverty in the Back Country
Howard "Jack" Thorp briefly knew the Joe Ray family, who fell into that category. This is their story, as he remembered it.
Thorp himself came from New York blue-blood stock, spending his youth playing polo an...See the full content of this document
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