A well scrubbed, hustling rube . . . . You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling ?"
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Shields had hated Lewis ever since he had heard him call his mother a " bitch " and " poor white trash . " Lewis was uninjured in the attack.
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Now we're all poor white trash, every last middle-class one of us, too busy fighting our natural allies to see that the trick's on us.
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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 ".
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This, my junior high social studies teacher explained back in eighth grade, is why " poor white trash " in the South hated " negroes " instead of seeing how similar their positions in society were.
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Harrison, commenting on some of the hostility she has encountered, remarked that " if I were ` poor white trash,'living in a trailer park, with a broken marriage, people would be more willing to forgive me.
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Fresh from acclaim at this year's Sundance Festival, this tale of starting over, spiritual redemption and female bonding is likely to be remembered most for the remarkably natural, " poor white trash " performance by Alison Elliott as Percy.
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Now _ " now " being the Depression summer of 1935 _ they are what was then commonly called " poor white trash, " living with their seven children on a parcel of land straight out of " Tobacco Road ."
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Traditionally, these subjects were associated with " poor white trash " and intruded on the consciousness of readers through novels like " Tobacco Road " and " The Beans of Egypt, Maine . " and the research of anthropologists and sociologists.
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There was not room for him at the supper table, so he was sent to the kitchen to eat with the slaves, but not so, since the slaves would not sit with that " poor white trash ", so Abe was obliged to sit in a corner alone.
