Growing Up White Trash

“Pretty’s too much work, opt for clean.”
HISTORY:
“White Trash,” was used as a racial slur to describe certain low income Caucasians, especially those characterized by crude manners or low moral standards, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, our History teacher Mrs. Armstrong quoted.

“White Trash,” first came into common use in the 1830’s as an American prerogative used by slaves of “Gentlemen,’’ (Rich white southerners often plantation aristocrats against poor whites who worked the fi...