White people and white culture in the US is being analysed, dissected and problematized with the rise of Donald Trump to the Republican Presidential nomination. I am particularly fascinated by the parallels between these people in the US and poor white people and culture in Australia, as there are many.

For a start, England used both America and Australia as dumping grounds for their ‘human refuse’ – Irish Catholics and poor Protestants, mainly, for whom food and work could not be found in the UK.