What county is the epitome of socially liberal white poors?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

When I think "white poors", the last state I think of is Vermont (or any New England state, for that matter).

There's a lot of rural proverty in northern New England. It's not desperation, but you have people struggling to get by. It's most prevalent in the areas far from the big cities and the busiest highways. Big parts of Maine, northern and western New Hampshire, parts of rural western Mass....

It's the same here as well. Rural poverty often hides itself very well (in the same sort of way that the true scale of urban poverty does, actually).

[Filuwaúrdjan]

There certainly are pockets of poverty in northern and eastern Maine  - but it's nothing compared to places like Mississippi or Appalachian Kentucky.

Well of course not. But whites don't come poorer (certainly not in the United States) than those in central Appalachia.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

A statistic like the percentage of the population/households below the poverty line doesn't mislead about the number of people who are "poors". 

The poverty line in the states is just an arbitrary line drawn in the '60's (and based on data from the '50's) and not seriously changed since. It didn't come down from Mount Sinai or anything.