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What (who) is white trash - definition

PEJORATIVE
White Trash; Sand-Hiller; Whitetrash
  • [[Dorothea Lange]]'s 1936 photograph of [[Florence Thompson]], a migrant worker in California during the [[Great Depression]], along with three of her children. The photo is known as ''[[Migrant Mother]]''
  • This poor white family from [[Alabama]] was presented in 1913 as "celebrities" because they had escaped the debilitating effects of [[hookworm disease]], which, along with [[pellagra]] was endemic among poor Southern whites due to poor sanitation and the phenomenon of "clay eating" or "dirt eating" ([[geophagia]]).
  • Puerto Rico (circa. 1899) "The farming class is about on a par with the poor darkies down South, and varies much even in race and color, ranging from Spanish white trash to full-blooded Ethiopians."

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<abuse, hardware> A pejorative term for Intel-based microcomputers, used by NeXT users at UK law firm Linklaters & Paines to contrast these machines with their black NeXT boxes. (1996-09-04)
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¦ noun N. Amer. derogatory poor white people, especially those living in the southern US.
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Some people use white trash to refer to poor white people who they think are worthless. (AM OFFENSIVE)
...a place peopled by illiterate poor white trash.
N-UNCOUNT-COLL [disapproval]

Wikipedia

White trash

White trash is a derogatory racial and class-related slur used in American English to refer to poor white people, especially in the rural areas of the southern United States. The label signifies a social class inside the white population and especially a degraded standard of living. It is used as a way to separate the "noble and hardworking" "good poor" from the lazy, "undisciplined, ungrateful and disgusting" "bad poor". The use of the term provides middle- and upper-class whites a means of distancing themselves from the poverty and powerlessness of poor whites, who cannot enjoy those privileges, as well as a way to disown their perceived behavior.

The term has been adopted for people living on the fringes of the social order, who are seen as dangerous because they may be criminal, unpredictable, and without respect for political, legal, or moral authority. While the term is mostly used pejoratively by urban and middle-class whites as a class signifier, some white entertainers self-identify as "white trash", considering it a badge of honor, and celebrate the stereotypes and social marginalization of lower-class whiteness.

In common usage, "white trash" overlaps in meaning with "cracker", used of people in the backcountry of the Southern states; "hillbilly", regarding poor people from Appalachia; "Okie" regarding those with origins in Oklahoma; and "redneck", regarding rural origins, especially from the South. The primary difference is that "redneck", "cracker", "Okie", and "hillbilly" emphasize that a person is poor and uneducated and comes from the backwoods with little awareness of and interaction with the modern world, while "white trash" – and the modern term "trailer trash" – emphasizes the person's supposed moral failings, without regard to the setting of their upbringing. While the other terms suggest rural origins, "white trash" and "trailer trash" may be urban or suburban as well.

Scholars from the late 19th to the early 21st century explored generations of families who were considered "disreputable", such as the Jukes family and the Kallikak family, both pseudonyms for real families.

Examples of use of white trash
1. Loughead gives surprisingly good shouty, white–trash mother–in–law.
2. Typical white trash who got money and doesn‘t know what to do with it.
3. "I thought this was the White Trash Correspondents‘ Dinner," she said.
4. "They made me out to sound like a white–trash biker druggie," Duley said.
5. The place is preserved in alcohol." White trash Steve, a self–loathing hypocrite with a Cockney disdain for the "cider–crazed hillbillies" he lives among, offers a thumbnail explanation for the chaos: no amenities, poor schools and a "council that don‘t do fuck–all for white trash". But he is also aware that conventional triggers for antisocial behaviour don‘t tell the whole story.