The USA has been populated mostly by white trash sent from England to work.  When England  ran out of deportable deplorables,  they enslaved Native Americans to work with their white slaves.  When labor demands rose,  the English and other European elites,  USA landowners by deed from the King of England,  began to buy African slaves from Dutch slave traders,  who bought them from muslim African slavers  because,  after all,  if you are not muslim,  you are chattel,  a pagan  infidel,  sub human.  The absentee landlords and the Crown taxed the "freemen" and their property,  their sales,  to provide for the European 1%.  There was a revolution.  England lost.  But this country has never been free from the rule by the landed,  educated elites.  Thus, we have  the  Resist Trump movement of  intellectuals,  people with serious money hedging bets.    The GI Bill made many white trash folk some wealth.  The elites have clawed that back (tuitions!).  Don't expect cheap housing,  ever again.