trailer trash

Derogatory description for person who seems well-suited to residential life in a mobile home park and is distinguished by poor hygiene, foul language, slovenly or slutty clothing, and general ignorance. Recreations include drinking malt liquor in lawn chairs under tattered R.V. awning and teenage pregnancy. Close synonymn for poor white trash. Can also be used as literal term for personal effects strewn by tornado when ripping though mobile home park.
"Bambi acts like such trailer trash when she chugs malt liquor and belches."

"She can clean it up, but underneath she's still trailer trash."

white trash history

White trash is an American English pejorative term referring to individual or groups of lower social class white skinned people that the speaker considers to lack cultural capital. It is most frequently used as a slur to describe financially, economically or culturally disadvantaged Caucasians. It may also be used self-referentially by white North Americans with higher socio-economic status to jokingly describe limitations they sense in their culture[citation needed] and may also be used as a within-group expression among disadvantaged white Americans to express solidarity. "White trash" should be differentiated from the term redneck, as each has a unique historical etymology and context in modern usage with the latter generally a bit more socially acceptable.

The term white trash originated in the Baltimore and Washington, DC area during the 1820s post-revolutionary war reconstruction boom. During that period, many poor people migrated to the area, and white and black semi-skilled workers were competing for the same jobs, resources and marriage partners.[1] The term white trash first came into common use in the 1830s as a pejorative used by upper-class United States southerners of all races against financially disadvantaged caucasians.[citation needed] It was synonymous with the slurs sand hiller, "sandlapper", and clay eater. The last term was because Upper-class Southerners assumed poor white farmers farmed ineptly on poor land, and consequently had nothing to eat but clay.[citation needed]
In 1854 Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the chapter "Poor White Trash" in her book A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin. Stowe tells the reader that slavery not only produces "degraded, miserable slaves", but also poor whites who are even more degraded and miserable. The plantation system forced those whites to struggle for subsistence. Beyond economic factors, Stowe traces this class to the shortage of schools and churches in their community, and says that both blacks and whites in the area look down on these "poor white trash".[1] Sociologist Max Weber described white trash as "[those] not owning slaves".

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White Trash Party
FEBRUARY 20TH, 2009 2 COMMENTS HOLIDAY AND THEME PARTIES · LARGER AFFAIRS
One of the all-time best theme parties I ever attended was a “White Trash Party” some friends threw a few years back. This party does require costumes and I understand it is sometimes difficult to get grown-people to dress up on any occasion other than Halloween (sometimes even then it’s impossible). But it’s an absolute riot, and after a few PBR tall boys those brave enough to come in White trash attire are sure to get into full character.

The details I remember about the party I attended include the food of course. There was an assortment of deviled eggs and pimento cheese sandwiches. Anything to drink was served in a can. And the costumes were great. I personally went to my local thrift store and bought and acid-washed denim miniskirt with a big denim bow sewn at the top of the slit in the back, a red, knit mid-drift with elastic cinching the sleeves and above the waist with a zipper up top to show off my manufactured cleavage, and some white flats with cork-board soles of which the heels came detached half-way through the evening. Aside from that, I went crazy with the blue eye-shadow, frosty pink lipstick and teased bangs. The whole outfit cost me a total of about $5.
The best part about this party idea is that it is really cheap, but appears to be a big to-do because of the costumes and “exotic” fare. Besides pimento cheese sandwiches, might I recommend an assortment of off-brand chips, Little Debbies, Moon Pies, Pork and Beans, store bought potato salad, ohhhh…and a big bowl of those butter cream mints sitting around like they have at all the buffets when you leave. You could easily make this into a BBQ and get a box of frozen burgers, but make sure to get the hot dogs that already have the processed cheese filling.
For beverages, of course there is the canned beer, or you could just get a keg of MGD or something. People will drink it. It need not be a White trash party for guests to drink any kind of free beer you serve them. And if it’s all part of the theme, even the beer snobs among us will play along.
It would be a really good idea to have the party the day of a big NASCAR race. Keep that piped in over the TV and make sure to have plenty of classic rock and country tunes on the boom box out in the back yard next to all your plastic lounge chairs. Cover as many details as your time and budget will permit.
I know with a costume party there is always the fear that people won’t dress up. I honestly don’t invite friends that I don’t think will be good sports to these type parties. You might, in your invitation, let folks know that a prize will be awarded to the best costume. This offers incentive. And keeping with the theme, no one will expect anything elaborate. A can coozie or $5 worth of scratch-off lottery tickets should suffice.
I’d love to hear any ideas you might have to make this party even more trashy. Or variations you might enlist to make it your own.