The 448 occurrences of white trash
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"Look at them low down white trash out there!" she shrilled, pointing toward the Arrow.
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In the country from which I came, a white man holding no slaves was usually an ignorant and poverty-stricken man, and men of this class were contemptuously called "poor white trash."
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A free white man, holding no slaves, in the country, I had known to be the most ignorant and poverty-stricken of men, and the laugh{268} ing stock even of slaves themselves--called generally by them, in derision, _"poor white trash_."
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In the country from which I came, a white man holding no slaves was usually an ignorant and poverty-stricken man, and men of this class were contemptuously called "poor white trash."
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They jogged into the town, I say, through the crowds of white trash, and rode up to the court-house where Sevier was being tried for his life.
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Mr Baildon says about the _Ebb-Tide_: "I can compare his next book, the _Ebb-Tide_ (in collaboration with Osbourne) to little better than a mud-bath, for we find ourselves, as it were, unrelieved by dredging among the scum and dregs of humanity, the 'white trash' of the Pacific.
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"I kin guard an' detect same as dat low-down, good-fo'-nuffin white trash Koku!"
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Dat big, good-fo'-nuffin white trash?
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I don't want nuffin t' do wif dat ornery, low-down white trash!
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Dat low-down white trash ob a giant is all right fo' guardin', but he ain't wuff shucks at detectin'!" said Eradicate, with pardonable pride.
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Under the old regime they were looked down upon by those who controlled all the affairs in the interest of slave-owners, as poor white trash who were allowed the ballot so long as they cast it according to direction.
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The whites could not toil without becoming degraded, and those who did were denominated "poor white trash."
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These Crackers are the "poor white folks" of the planter, and "de white trash" of the old slave, who now as a freedman is beginning to feel the responsibility of his position.
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"He's one of dem no good Southern white trash; he's good fer nuttin'," said Sam.
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That I was purer blooded than the white trash here?
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Missis Garvey and me, we come f'om the po' white trash.
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To exchange only those excepted from amnesty and pardon by President Johnson, embracing some two millions or more, the very pars sanior of the Southern population, for what would remain or flock in to supply their place, would be only the exchange of Glaucus and Diomed, gold for brass; to disfranchise them, confiscate their estates, and place them under the political control of the freedmen, lately their slaves, and the ignorant and miserable "white trash," would be simply to render rebellion chronic, and to convert seven millions of Americans, willing and anxious to be free, loyal American citizens, eternal enemies.
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On the other side were the boys, in physical characteristics the same and suggesting the same social divisions: at the top the farmer--now and then a slave-holder and perhaps of gentle blood--who had dropped by the way on the westward march of civilization and had cleared some rich river bottom and a neighboring summit of the mountains, where he sent his sheep and cattle to graze; where a creek opened into this valley some free-settler, whose grandfather had fought at King's Mountain--usually of Scotch-Irish descent, often English, but sometimes German or sometimes even Huguenot--would have his rude home of logs; under him, and in wretched cabins at the head of the creek or on the washed spur of the mountain above, or in some "deadenin"' still higher up and swept by mists and low-trailing clouds, the poor white trash--worthless descendants of the servile and sometimes criminal class who might have traced their origin back to the slums of London; hand-to-mouth tenants of the valley-aristocrat, hewers of wood for him in the lowlands and upland guardians of his cattle and sheep.
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"Who were they, Tom?" he asked The old driver turned: "They was some po' white trash down on Cane Creek, I reckon, suh.
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There was a slight contempt in the negro's words that made Chad think of hearing the Turners call the Dillons white trash--though they never said "po' white trash."
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"Jess wait till Miss Lucy sees that piece o' white trash," he said, shaking his head.
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How did this piece of poor white trash dare to offer a fish to his sister.
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"Ole Marse Cal Buford pickin' a piece of white trash out de gutter an' not sayin' whar he come from an' nuttin' 'bout him.
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He gwine to fight wid de po' white trash."
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De place is low down, sah, and de fo'ks is low down, and dah's a heap o' white trash dat has congested under de roof ob de hotel since we came.
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There's no poor stock there--no white trash--no mixed blood, sir.
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"'Flipper has had the privilege of eating at the same table with the poor white trash; but Smith and Flipper bunked together in the same room alone, without white companions.
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This is the class we in the South are accustomed to call the "poor white trash," and speaking of them generally I can neglect them in this discussion of my treatment, and without material error.
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I think the "poor white trash" of the South are falling out of their ranks by sickness, desertion, and every available means; but there is a large class of vindictive Southerners who will fight to the last.
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At the first, the boxes appeared to get no supply except from the two white trash present.
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Lastly thar's the pore white trash, thet lives 'way up in the hollers an' on the wuthless lands about the headwaters.
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--a world of contempt would be in Johnny's tones--"Poor white trash!
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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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Finely formed, stalwart, full-fed and well clothed, they formed the most delightful contrast with the scrawny, shambling, villain-visaged little clay-eaters and white trash who had looked down upon us from the sentry boxes for many long months.
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At the first, the boxes appeared to get no supply except from the two white trash present.
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At the first, the boxes appeared to get no supply except from the two white trash present.
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At breakfast, I remember, there occurred a slight misunderstanding between Mrs. Beaudesart, the housekeeper, and Ida, the white trash whose vocation was to wait on the narangies.
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Finely formed, stalwart, full-fed and well clothed, they formed the most delightful contrast with the scrawny, shambling, villain-visaged little clay-eaters and white trash who had looked down upon us from the sentry boxes for many long months.
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I think the "poor white trash" of the South are falling out of their ranks by sickness, desertion, and every available means; but there is a large class of vindictive Southerners who will fight to the last.
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Under the old regime they were looked down upon by those who controlled all the affairs in the interest of slave-owners, as poor white trash who were allowed the ballot so long as they cast it according to direction.
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The whites could not toil without becoming degraded, and those who did were denominated "poor white trash."
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What you wanter be foolin' 'round wif dat po' white trash fer?
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We would not be "colored" if we could, and perhaps we could not be aristocratic if we would; and the opportunity to become, or, perhaps I should say, to remain, "poor white trash," though wide open, is not very alluring.
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Indeed, white trash like this was considered little else than rubbish, not worth bringing up respectably.
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Ye see, whenever ye makes white trash what ain't slaved a nuisance, you makes it mightily unpopular; and when folks is unpopular the nuisance is easily removed, especially when ye can get pay for removing it.
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Par really liked Tammi, but he couldn't get the ugly phrase 'white trash' out of his thoughts.
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The colored man saw the red-haired lad coming and murmured: "Dere's dat no 'count white trash!
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Dat Willits blood ain't no 'count, nohow; dey's po' white trash, dey is--eve'ybody knows dat.
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The judge would stroll over to court an hour or more late, only to find an equally careless and contented group blocking up the door--"po' white trash" most of them, each one with a grievance.
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Her maiden name was Lard, and the Lards were "poor white trash."
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Closer investigation disclosed the fact that the glow was caused by an acetylene lamp which piece of enterprise doubtless caused the storekeeper to assume a high place in the estimation of the lazy negroes, and shiftless "white trash" of the neighborhood.
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A yellow dog began to bark furiously, the three children ran like frightened sheep, since they seldom saw strangers there, and immediately a slatternly looking woman with the customary thin face of the "poor white trash" of the South made her appearance at the door.
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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."
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You poor white trash--you--" "_Ma!_ You shut up and go down-stairs-s-s-s-s!"
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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 or 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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Poor white trash!
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"Poor white trash, sir!
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"Then, sir," he continued, "they introduced these damned trotting races; trotting races are for white trash, Mr. Brice."
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"You mean that this white trash Lincoln may be President?" she exclaimed, seizing his arm.
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"You--you white trash!" cried Mammy, bursting with indignation.
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"Honey," said the Colonel,--"I reckon we're just as poor as white trash."
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He might have stood for many of the poor white trash farmers she had seen in Kentucky--save for the long black coat.
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Poor white trash!
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"Poor white trash, sir!
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"Then, sir," he continued, "they introduced these damned trotting races; trotting races are for white trash, Mr. Brice."
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"You mean that this white trash Lincoln may be President?" she exclaimed, seizing his arm.
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"You--you white trash!" cried Mammy, bursting with indignation.
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"Honey," said the Colonel,--"I reckon we're just as poor as white trash."
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He might have stood for many of the poor white trash farmers she had seen in Kentucky--save for the long black coat.
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They jogged into the town, I say, through the crowds of white trash, and rode up to the court-house where Sevier was being tried for his life.
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Poor white trash!
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"Poor white trash, sir!
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"Then, sir," he continued, "they introduced these damned trotting races; trotting races are for white trash, Mr. Brice."
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"You mean that this white trash Lincoln may be President?" she exclaimed, seizing his arm.
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"You--you white trash!" cried Mammy, bursting with indignation.
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"Honey," said the Colonel,--"I reckon we're just as poor as white trash."
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He might have stood for many of the poor white trash farmers she had seen in Kentucky--save for the long black coat.
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I think the "poor white trash" of the South are falling out of their ranks by sickness, desertion, and every available means; but there is a large class of vindictive Southerners who will fight to the last.
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Under the old regime they were looked down upon by those who controlled all the affairs in the interest of slave-owners, as poor white trash who were allowed the ballot so long as they cast it according to direction.
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The whites could not toil without becoming degraded, and those who did were denominated "poor white trash."
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'White trash,' the niggers called your folks.
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No pore-white trash dar; no lame hosses ner blind mules ner wukked down crap-critters, Jes sleek gentlemen's hosses, all on 'em.
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And now that I've been living with such respectable and high-toned people as you all are, I don't think I could stand niggers and poor white trash again--" "I am sure you will be good," interrupted Betty, encouragingly.
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Well, well, Mas'r Anderson isn't low-down white trash.
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Ryder's anger was great, because Clovelly remarked with mock seriousness that the lascars were picturesque, and asked the American if he had watched them listlessly eating rice and curry as they squatted between decks; whether he had observed the Serang, with his silver whistle, who ruled them, and despised us "poor white trash;" and if he did not think it was a good thing to have fatalists like them as sailors --they would be cool in time of danger.
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Ryder's anger was great, because Clovelly remarked with mock seriousness that the lascars were picturesque, and asked the American if he had watched them listlessly eating rice and curry as they squatted between decks; whether he had observed the Serang, with his silver whistle, who ruled them, and despised us "poor white trash;" and if he did not think it was a good thing to have fatalists like them as sailors--they would be cool in time of danger.
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Ryder's anger was great, because Clovelly remarked with mock seriousness that the lascars were picturesque, and asked the American if he had watched them listlessly eating rice and curry as they squatted between decks; whether he had observed the Serang, with his silver whistle, who ruled them, and despised us "poor white trash;" and if he did not think it was a good thing to have fatalists like them as sailors --they would be cool in time of danger.
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"That's right, boss," some one on the beach cried, "that's right; you get quarantined," while others shouted to the deputy to "make de white trash move 'long out o' dat."
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Beggars, vagabonds, indentured servants, kidnapped girls, even convicts, were sent to Jamestown and became the ancestors of some of the "poor white trash" of the South.
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A coach and four at that moment would not have compensated him for the fact that a complaisant, red-headed furnaceman, a "po' white trash" arrived but yesterday, was being allowed to pass the tray that by all rights of precedence belonged to him.
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"Mr. Buggone," she had said in her sternest tones, "you's wuss dan poah white trash when you gets a chance at de cubbard.
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A Virginian of good birth, fair education, and limited knowledge of the world and of men, proud of his ancestry, proud of his State, and proud of himself; believing in states' rights, slavery, and the Confederacy; and away down in the bottom of his soul still clinging to the belief that the poor white trash of the earth includes about everybody outside of Fairfax County.
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Jerry belonged to the "poor white trash" of the Cumberland Mountains, and on the death of his mother, being cruelly treated at home, he ran away to the West.
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"Well, I'm willing enough to do battle for my country," said Jack Powell, "but I'll be blessed if I'm going to have my elbow jogged by the poor white trash while I'm doing it."
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You may fit all you wanter--I ain' sayin' nuttin' agin yo' fittin ef yo' spleen hit's up--but you could er foun' somebody ter fit wid back at home widout comin' out hyer ter git yo'se'f a-jumbled up wid all de po' white trash in de county.
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"Well, I'm willing enough to do battle for my country," said Jack Powell, "but I'll be blessed if I'm going to have my elbow jogged by the poor white trash while I'm doing it."