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Is Sotomayor's Impoverished Upbringing Relevant?

So Sotomayor grew up poor.  According to liberals who did not grow up poor, this matters.  For some reason.  Why?  Supposedly it makes people more empathethic.  Well, I grew up pooooooor.  Not John Edwards, "My dad was a union manager making middle-class wages" poor.  I was actually poor.  As a kid, we were on welfare.  We had holes in our carpet.  Our roof leaked.  Until my mid-teens, I never traveled more than an hour away from my home.  We never had a car reliable enough to take on road trips.   We got school clothes once during the school year.  Two pairs of pants had the last the entire school year.Liberals would not want me on the Supreme Court.Why not?  I grew up the "right" way, didn't I?  I was poor!  I have life experiences!What is wrong with me then, according to liberals?  Speaking of which...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on May 27, 2009 (boomark / email).