white trash
Rural lower class
White trash is a derogatory term for poor white people, especially in the rural American South, implying ignorance, crudeness, and low social status.
The term carries class contempt—suggesting people are disposable refuse: Her family dismissed him as white trash.
Some use it self-deprecatingly or to reclaim the label: I'm white trash and proud of it.
Rural Southern laborer stereotype
- hillbillyRural mountain dweller stereotype
- crackerCrisp baked wafer
- peckerwoodSlur for poor whites
- hickRural naif, derogatory
yokel · bumpkin · lowlife · scum · riffraff · chav · bogan · underclass
Community of relocatable dwellings
- NASCARStock car sanctioning body
- moonshineIllegally distilled spirits
- pickup truckLight cargo vehicle
- camouflageConcealment through visual blending
mullet · backwoods · country · southern · blue-collar · uneducated · unsophisticated · welfare
Severe lack of resources
- socioeconomicRelating to income and status
- inequalityUnequal distribution of resources
- stigmaMark of dishonor
- prejudicePreformed unfavorable opinion
discrimination · elitism · snobbery · hierarchy · stratification · marginalization · othering · exclusion
redneck
Rural Southern laborer stereotype
- hillbillyRural mountain dweller stereotype
- crackerCrisp baked wafer
- peckerwoodSlur for poor whites
hick · yokel · bumpkin · lowlife · scum · riffraff · chav · bogan · underclass · outcast
trailer park
Community of relocatable dwellings
- NASCARStock car sanctioning body
- moonshineIllegally distilled spirits
- pickup truckLight cargo vehicle
camouflage · mullet · backwoods · country · southern · blue-collar · uneducated · unsophisticated · welfare · meth
poverty
Severe lack of resources
- socioeconomicRelating to income and status
- inequalityUnequal distribution of resources
- stigmaMark of dishonor
prejudice · discrimination · elitism · snobbery · hierarchy · stratification · marginalization · othering · exclusion · privilege
- class labelsaristocrat, beggar, bourgeois, commoner, elite
- Regional LabelsYankee, Midwesterner, Texan, Californian, New Englander
white trashold money
Long-established family fortune
upper class · aristocracy · elite · blue blood · high society
white trashwell-bred
Having good upbringing
refined · classy · cultured · sophisticated · respectable
white, trash, whiter, whitest, whiten, whitened, whitening, whiteness, whites