In my opinion pedantry isn&#x27;t helpful for stimulating conversation. You admitted ignorance of the causes of US poverty and of US history (&#x27;As a non-American I am less than qualified to provide an answer&#x27;), suggested a very simple single parent household theory with evidence of a correlation with poverty. I merely placed your theory and evidence within a historical and ongoing context of oppression (slavery and state sponsored oppression didn&#x27;t end 150 year ago).<p>Pretty sure that Jim Crow and Slavery aren&#x27;t speculation, but are common historical facts that don&#x27;t require citation, much like saying World War 2 or the Annexation of Crimea happened doesn&#x27;t require citation.<p>The point wasn&#x27;t that single parent households aren&#x27;t a cause of poverty (it certainly doesn&#x27;t help), but that it is far too simplistic, that it is probably more symptomatic than causal, and with a US political lens can be seen as a case of dog whistle politics (not accusing you personally of engaging in such politics, which I should have made more clear).