The 448 occurrences of white trash
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"Fetch some wattah!" he called, "quick dar, you ongrateful white trash!
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"Ise consarned 'bout getting young Marse Ed'ard safe home, an' don't care nuffin' for all de white trash in de country.
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Somehow I rader guess I should ha let dar box fall and smashiated de contents, so I jist give dat white trash de job jest to let de poor crittur arn a shillin."
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The above term "white trash" is the one commonly employed to express their supreme contempt for the "low Irish wulgar set."
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An' to think, me a brilin' a piece o' hit fer a low-down white trash cow-driver whut come yer to eat!
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Po' white trash a-layin' up in bed all mornin,' an' den it's eggs!
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"I speaks gold chain!" echoed the woman tossing her grey head, "you po' white trash can't come it ober dis chile wid yer crick-cracks.
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We all knows as how teachers is de meanest kine of white trash gwine; still, I specs you might'ly.
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He has a slender visage of the frailness I have learned to know and distinguish: it represents the pure American type of people known as "poor white trash," and with whose blood has been scarcely any admixture of foreign element.
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If this means content in servitude, if this means that the poor white trash are born slaves, or if, on the contrary, it means that there is something inherent in a woman that will carry her past suicide and past idiocy and degradation, all of which is around her, I think it argues well for the working women.
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I quote from the illustrated supplement of the South Carolina _State_ that you may see what the mill manufacturers think of the quality of the "poor white trash": "The operatives in the South Carolina mills are the common people--the bone and sinew who have left the fields to the Negroes.
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The overseers were poor white trash; he would give them about sixty dollars a year."
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"But I don't want poor white trash; I'd sooner have niggers."
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"It's just as I said," growled Colonel Cresswell, "if you don't watch out our whole plantation system will be ruined and we'll be governed by this white trash from the hills."
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I wish it was possible to be a Southerner and a Christian and an honest man, to treat niggers and dagoes and white trash like men, and be big enough to say, 'To Hell with consequences!'"
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Anything--even one of the old plantation mules would do if he could only perch her up on its back and take her into Richmond like a lady and not like the daughter of poor white trash, tramping, poverty stricken, along a dusty road.
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Den de front do' flewed open, an' here come dat po' white trash rapscallion--wid de pine knot in his han'.
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Dat po' white trash--he drop lek a stuck pig, seh!"
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In sight of the bronze Washington, this Gideon Vetch, one of "the poor white trash," born in a circus tent, so people said, the demagogue of demagogues in Stephen's opinion--this Gideon Vetch had become Governor of Virginia!
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"Dem low down white trash!" commented Aunt Basha.
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He knows, it is true, as all the world knows, that, if the vote of all the men of the South could ever be obtained, the majority would utterly overshadow the handful of gentry who have been lording it over white trash and black slaves together.
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Poor white trash!
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The boy's head was held high, indicative of his opinion of poor white trash and Crackers in general, and Mandy Ann in particular.
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I'm a good girl," an' fo' Heaven, I b'lieved her, though some o' de white trash didn't at fust, but they all did at the last.
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'Both the negro and the poor whites are the serfs, but the white trash are its real support.
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The late election shows that the power of your 'white trash' is broken.'
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'I'm glad you think slavery will not exist during the millennium,' I replied, laughing; 'but how is it that you insist the negro is naturally inferior to the white, and still admit that the 'white trash' are far below the black slaves?'
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As a class, they are poor, ignorant and needy in every way--materially, intellectually, morally and spiritually, but _they are not the "poor, white trash" of the South_.
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Southern white labor was continually annoyed with the appellation of 'white trash,' and other contemptuous epithets; but still was obliged to toil on under the continuous insult.
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The arguments of the plotters of treason against a 'government of majorities'--the doctrine of 'State rights,' with the right to secede at the option of a State--the _quasi_ repudiation of the 'white trash,' so called, as an element of political equality, were regarded as the ebullitions of a politically vitiated class who would be willing to overthrow the National Government, but who were supposed to be too few in numbers to taint with poisonous fatality the political mind of the South.
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"In Ol' Virginny we use ter say moster to jist our sho'-'nuff owners; but," he added quickly, by way of mollifying the overseer, who could not fail to be stung by the covert jeer, "it's a heap better ter say moster ter all the white folks, white trash an' all: then yer's sho' ter be right."
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Perceiving that he had Little Lizay's sympathy, Alston went on talking, telling her that he could stand a lashing coming from his own master, but that an overseer was only white trash, who never did "own a nigger," and never would be able to.
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What I gwine ter be skeered fer uv er little no 'count white trash dat ain' never own er nigger in dere life?
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De niggers, dey is gwine plum outer dey heads, en de po' white trash dey's gwine plum outer dey places."
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"De po' white trash ain' set foot inside my do'," he added, "en de leetle gals ain' flirt roun' twell dar wa'nt no qualifyin' der legs f'om der arms."
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"And--and I don't mind about your being poor white trash!"
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"He ain' nuttin but po' white trash!"
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"He ain' nuttin sep po' white trash!" she repeated.
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They are less profane--very much less--than white people; less bitter, vindictive, and bloodthirsty; less intemperate, and far, far less revengeful; and less selfish than what they contemptuously snub as "poor white trash."
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They were commonly known as "_poor white trash_," or "crackers."
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It is safe to say, that the peasantry of no country claiming to be civilized stands more in need of the labors of the schoolmaster and the preacher, than do the so-called "poor white trash" of the South.
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Instead of becoming outlaws, as the critical condition would seem to have indicated, the black men of the South _went manfully to work_ to better their own condition and the crippled condition of the country which had been produced by the ravages of internecine rebellion; _while the white men of the South, the capitalists, the land-sharks, the poor white trash, and the nondescripts, with a thousand years of Christian civilization and culture behind them, with "the boast of chivalry, the pomp of power," these white scamps, who had imposed upon the world the idea that they were paragons of virtue and the heaven-sent vicegerents of civil power, organized themselves into a band of outlaws, whose concatenative chain of auxiliaries ran through the entire South, and deliberately proceeded to murder innocent men and women for POLITICAL REASONS and to systematically rob them of their honest labor because they were too accursedly lazy to labor themselves._ But this highly abnormal, unnatural condition of things is fast passing away.
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"Her nose went up inter ther air, and she said: 'H'm, guess what we gets every day's good 'nuff for one o' doze poor white trash teachurs.'
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"Well, dat mout er be so," said the old man; "I ain't er 'sputin' it, but you chil'en comes fum er mighty high-minded stock uv white folks, an' hit ain't becomin' in yer fur ter be runnin' erway an' er hidin' out, same ez oberseer's chil'en, an' all kin' er po' white trash."
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Somehow I rader guess I should ha let dar box fall and smashiated de contents, so I jist give dat white trash de job jest to let de poor crittur arn a shillin."
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The above term "white trash" is the one commonly employed to express their supreme contempt for the "low Irish wulgar set."
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It's fellows like this precious Tobias, real white trash--the negroes' name for them is apt enough--that are the danger for the friendship of both races.
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Even in slave times there was rancor between the black man and what he called "po' white trash" and it still continues.
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"These white trash are as impudent as the niggers," said Bob, "and no one who has the least respect for himself will have anything to do with them.
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You one dam mean white trash ob common sailor.
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Until the boy grew up an' took hold of things, the Revercombs warn't nothin' mo' than slack fisted, out-at-heel po' white trash, as the niggers say, though the old man, Abel's grandfather, al'ays lays claim to bein' connected with the real Revercombs, higher up in the State--However that may be, befo' the war thar warn't no place for sech as them, an' 'tis only since times have changed an' the bottom begun to press up to the top that anybody has heerd of 'em.
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And the people--the American Southerners; rich whites, whites well-to-do, poor white trash; good country folks, valley farmers; mountaineers--darkies, and the motley feminine horde that the soldier draws the world over--all moving along the road as far as he could see, and interspersed here and there in the long, low cloud of dust with a clanking troop of horse or a red rumbling battery--all coming to see the soldiers--the soldiers!
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Mistus let dem boys pick 'em some peas w'en us would be pickin', an' us would run 'em off, cause us diden' lak' po' white trash.
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I 'member all the po' white trash that lived near us.
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He wan't no po' white trash; he was up-to-date but he like to beat on niggers."
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I own that darkey must be defended, and sturdily defended too, from the injustice and cruelty of the class he calls 'poor white trash;' but the protection should be in reason, or it becomes an injustice.
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At first she insisted one had to have a bathtub or else be just "pore white trash," but in time she learned to bathe quite luxuriously in a three-pint basin.
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This condoned clog to the progress of Southern civilization is known as white trash.
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At present he does not and cannot know this, for the white trash and vagrant Negro form a wedge separating the new Southerner from the new Negro so completely that they cannot know each other.
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Every unmentionable crime committed by the vagrant Negro, every lynching bee conducted by white trash, every Negro disfranchisement law passed by misguided legislators, every unjust discrimination against the Negro by the people drives this wedge deeper and deeper.
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This cannot be done by banishing white trash and the vagrant Negro; for that is neither possible nor practicable.
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In order to transform the majority of white trash and vagrant Negroes into new Southerners and new Negroes it will be necessary to instill into them the following regenerating virtues: 1.
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Dey's nothin' but poah white trash livin' down in de swamp places an' dey steals whatevah dey kin lay han' on.
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Every Yankee I see had de stamp of poor white trash on them.
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White women in them days looked down on overseers as poor white trash.
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No sir, he poor man but him come from good folks, not poor white trash.
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"My white folks was no poor white trash, I tells you!
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"De patrollers was nothin' but poor white trash, mammy say, and if they didn't whip some slaves, every now and then, they would lose deir jobs.
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Four miles, then, over hill, down dale, past dusty undergrowth, the brilliant blue of the skies above him, passing negroes who looked strangely at him out of rolling eyes, who jerked black thumbs in his direction over shoulders, saying: "See de po' white trash man, walkin' home!"
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The rich planter, the small farmer, the 'white trash'--all classes, had gathered to the negro sale, like crows to a feast of carrion.
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"I would rather see him dead than married into a family of white trash.
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And I don't want to hear anything about crackers or white trash, either.
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"I don't know what dey ebber let sech poor white trash ez dat man git in er army for, anyhow!" he exclaimed indignantly.
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It had been known two days before that Vincent was going, and it seemed quite shocking to the negroes that the young master should go as a private soldier, and have to do everything for himself--"just," as they said, "like de poor white trash"; for the slaves were proud to belong to an old family, and looked down with almost contempt upon the poorer class of whites, regarding their own position as infinitely superior.
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Hurry away just as if you some poor white trash instead of Massa Wingfield ob de Orangery."
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Clytie said she'd do her best, but that spirits were mighty snifty and high-toned, even when they'd only been poor white trash on earth, and it might make them mad to be called away from their high jinks if they were taking a little recreation, or from their high-priced New York customers if they were working, to tend to cut-rate business.
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And she snatched a palling off the fence and nearly beat them poor white trash to death.
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The Lincoln family was one of the best in America, and while Abraham's own father was an eccentric person, he was yet a man of considerable force of character, by no means the "poor white trash" which he is often represented to have been.
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"'Oho, ma'am!' says I; 'things is come to a mighty purty pass when quality folks has to go frum house to house a-huntin' up pore white trash, an' a-astin' airter the'r kin.
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I'd rather be buried beside old Peter than near any of the poor white trash that dug him up--so there!
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She "Ain got no time for po white trash noway."
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Coot Harris, the marshman, had a daughter, who, as Uncle Ashby contemptuously remarked, 'was peart enuff, as pore white trash folkses go.'
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Me, the po' lil' white trash in Crothers' factory--everybody!
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Her contempt of the po' white trash faded before the pathetic desolateness of Liza's glance.
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"Miss Ann, honey," she said in her soft, old drawl, "dem cattle down by de Branch is all that stan's 'twixt us-all and we-all becoming white trash!
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"We-all are poor white trash!
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poor white trash!
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"Poor white trash!"
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Cynthia, beside the prostrate woman, was crooning as to a baby, and over and over the desperate old voice wailed: "We-all are poor white trash!"
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So it was that ten days later the Markhams, with their "po' white trash," left The Forge--Bob rebelliously struggling in the baggage car.
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St. John Ruthven t'inks he was common white trash."
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They are not considered so good, of course, as their masters, but a great deal better than the white trash.
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No wonder dat you wip de white trash ob de Southern army.
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"I can live without the opera and a telephone, but if you only knew how I cherish my stock of pins, and with what dread I look forward to the day when, like a poor white trash family I used to know, I shall refer to _the_ needle.
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She said they were gittin' along well enough without any church meetin's, and they did not want any of de high-toned people from de bottoms to come up there, putting on airs, treating them as ignorant, and no 'count white trash, and making fun of their farms and houses.
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The Judge and George wept, and were not ashamed to show their tears; while Mose, who had always cared for the horse, sobbed aloud in his grief, and on a sudden impulse of anger administered a kick to prostrate Wiles, the "po' white trash," who had killed Mas'r's hoss.
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You see plenty er po' white trash now a-ownin' fine homes and de quality rentin' nothin' mo' than cabins."
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As a whole, they compare very favorably with the 'poor white trash,' and individually they are vastly superior to this 'trash.'
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"As I was going on to say, Madame," pursues Mr. Snivel, with great blandness of manner, "when our white trash get to living with our negroes they are as well as dead.
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Our first families having slaves for such offices, have no need of "poor white trash."