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white trash
''White trash'' is a derogatory American English racial slur referring to poor white people, especially in the rural South of the United States, suggesting lower social class and degraded standards of living. The term suggests outcasts from respectable society living on the fringes of the social order, who are seen as dangerous because they may be criminal, unpredictable, and without respect for authority whether it be political, legal, or moral.〔Matt Wray, ''Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness'' (2006) p. 2〕 The term is usually a racial slur,〔John Hartigan Jr, "Who are these white people?: 'Rednecks,' 'Hillbillies,' and 'White Trash' as marked racial subjects." in 〕 but may also be used self-referentially by working-class whites to jokingly describe their origins or lifestyle.
==White trash ''vis-a-vis'' cracker, hillbilly, Okie, and redneck==
In common usage, "White trash" overlaps in meaning with "cracker" (regarding Georgia and Florida), "hillbilly" (regarding Appalachia), "Okie" (regarding Oklahoma origins), and "redneck".〔Wray (2006) p. x〕 The main 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 the modern world, while "White trash" emphasizes the person's moral failings.〔Wray, ''Not Quite White'' (2006) pp. 79, 102〕
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