Trae (Trey) Stephens

And it's like completely under the radar.

No one would expect that this would be the thing, obviously.

But, you know, it adds nothing to the demographic of the university.

The university has to, there's no cost for them to pay in relationships with guidance counselors.

They get nothing from, you know, bringing on another man or bringing on another white kid.

And so it's the easiest possible rejection.

Like all these top-tier universities, they have this stat of how many valedictorians they deny admissions to.

It's just like a bunch of public school white kids that are getting denied.

And with the kind of reframing of affirmative action programs at universities, you actually saw some of this come out in the data where, you know, for –

And for every black and Hispanic kid that didn't get a spot on a class by pulling away the affirmative action programs, it wasn't the white community that was benefiting from that at all.

I think it was like a tiny increase in acceptance rate for white kids.

It was actually the Asian American population that realized like 80% of the growth under that demographic shift.

Wow.

I think this is kind of what JD talks about in Hillbilly Elegy as well.

It's like the rural white communities were just decimated and they were left out of the American project.

Is that getting better now?

I actually don't think so.

I think that low socioeconomic status white communities in America are just like, it's not on the radar of most of the people that are thinking about trying to

you know, bring people out of poverty.

And I think every other demographic, every other ethnic demographic in America has better emissions rates for low socioeconomic status, except white communities.