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It’s kind of weird that we still use “white picket fences” to invoke lower-middle-class homeownership, even though in the modern day such places - houses with small yards in inner-ring suburbs - have chain-link fences.

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After all we’ve successfully updated our referent for “place a rural poor person grows up” from “log cabin” to “mobile home”.

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