Here’s what he said:
If you spend time in hardscrabble, white upstate New York, or eastern Kentucky, or my own native West Texas, and you take an honest look at the welfare dependency, the drug and alcohol addiction, the family anarchywhich is to say, the whelping of human children with all the respect and wisdom of a stray dogyou will come to an awful realization. It wasnt Beijing. It wasnt even Washington, as bad as Washington can be. It wasnt immigrants from Mexico, excessive and problematic as our current immigration levels are. It wasnt any of that,
I would have to say that the situation he said is true to a certain extent in many White communities. The problem I have with him is he GENERALIZES it to every single white community without differentiating those who are truly hurting with those who are irresponsible.