White trash
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| + | "Sarah Shepard looked upon what she called Hugh's laziness as a thing of the spirit. “You have got to get over it,” she declared. “Look at your own people--[[poor white]] [[white trash|trash]]--how lazy and shiftless they are. You can't be like them. It's a sin to be so dreamy and worthless.”"--''[[Poor White (novel)|Poor White]]'' (1920) by Sherwood Anderson | ||
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"Sarah Shepard looked upon what she called Hugh's laziness as a thing of the spirit. “You have got to get over it,” she declared. “Look at your own people--poor white trash--how lazy and shiftless they are. You can't be like them. It's a sin to be so dreamy and worthless.”"--Poor White (1920) by Sherwood Anderson |
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White trash is a pejorative term targeted at lower social class white people with poor prospects and/or low levels of education. To call someone white trash is to accuse a white person of being economically, educationally and/or culturally bankrupt. White trash should be differentiated from the more socially acceptable term Redneck, as each has an unique historical etymology and context in modern usage. While white trash is most commonly used as a pejorative, low- to middle-income rural whites often self-identify as rednecks.
See
- Yokel
- Redneck
- Trailer trash
- Trash
- Bogan and Hoon, in Australian and New Zealand English slang
- Chav, in British slang
- List of ethnic slurs
- Stereotypes of White Americans and Europeans
- Poor White
- White Trash: the Eugenic Family Studies 1877-1919 (1988) by Nicole Hahn Rafter
