He drew the children of the German and Scandinavian
immigrant underclass to his mission with candy and pony rides, and he drew the adults through evening prayer meetings and English classes.
Not exact matches
Most worries about eventual turmoil in this country have centered on the emergence of a permanent
underclass, not the temporary
underclass of newly arrived
immigrants but a permanent «internal proletariat.»
In these pages I argued that the real problem of «aliens» among us is represented not by
immigrants but by the urban
underclass and the intellectual overclass, both of whom are profoundly alienated from the rights and responsibilities of the American experience (see «The Aliens Among Us,» The Public Square, August / September 1993).