# Is the White Underclass Less Traditionalist Than Thought?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [February 13, 2012, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-white-underclass-less-traditionalist-than-thought/612679 "2012-02-13T05:11:24Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-white-underclass-less-traditionalist-than-thought/612679/21 "2012-02-14T02:35:33Z")

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> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#):
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> Does it _have_ to be church attendance? What if their Sunday practice, observed just as religiously (as it were), is getting together with buddies to watch televised football? How is that not a social-bonding ritual?

There’s also marriage. Becoming a member of a church and getting married are both ways of saying, “This is me, as a man.” If you’re working 32 hours a week at Wal-Mart, you might be uncomfortable saying that.

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