The Americans use black people and brown immigrants from Mexico and South and Central America in exactly the same way. "We have to cut programs because the lazy dark-skinned people might get some!" The poor whites happily vote accordingly, unaware or not caring they are cutting their own throats. If the working poor ever realized how much more they have in common with immigrants and/or people of color, and voted accordingly, the wealthy would be in trouble. That's why they always keep us against each other.