[Gaffer]

The author is an urban blogster with a pedigree even the WP won’t herald in any specificity.

She doesn’t know what the hell poverty is, nor has she ever seen it outside of assignments she’s been stuck with.

I can bet you she hasn’t been up in the western valleys of West Virginia or Appalachia, or North Georgia, Southern Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi or anywhere outside of DC or thereabouts. She has no idea how poor white people live.

[Army Air Corps]

I can bet you she hasn’t been up in the western valleys of West Virginia or Appalachia, or North Georgia, Southern Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi or anywhere outside of DC or thereabouts. She has no idea how poor white people live.

I have called this Urban Provincialism: a situation in which one's worldview is confined to and informed by strictly urban experiences. As you said, she hasn't seen the full spectrum of white poverty, and, thus, she hasn't a flippin' clue.