When Winston Churchill’s mother was growing up in her native Virginia, her mother took her to look at a village of poor whites. She said to her daughter, “This is awful. THESE ARE WHITE PEOPLE LIKE US yet they live like this!”
I am willing to bet that, if another TV dramatization of this incident is made, it will quote her as saying, “These are PEOPLE like us …”
Lady Churchill, though an active conservative (thanks for the correction!) had a special empathy for the British working classes that she never had for Virginia blacks or other blacks.
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