The 448 occurrences of white trash
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He looked down with infinite scorn upon the "poor white trash" which had no entrée into his master's circle and he pitied the free Negro because his lack of a master gave him no social standing.
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Dem railroaders was honest, and dey didn't take no presents, but de patrollers was low white trash!
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She worked at de big house and she stole something for him to give dat low white trash I reckon, 'cause de next day he played sick along in de evening and de black overlooker--he was my uncle--sent him back to de quarters.
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But dey was some low white trash and some devilish niggers made out like dey was Ku Klux ranging 'round de country stealing hosses and taking things.
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Close to our Master's plantation lived several families of old "poor white trash" who would steal me Master's hogs and chickens and come and tell me Mistress dat dey seen some of de slaves knock one of dere hogs in de head.
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Dis continued up till Master returned from de War and caught de old white trash stealing his hogs.
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All of us niggers called all the whites "poor white trash."
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The overseer was nothing but poor white trash and the meanest man that ever walked on earth.
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Master Astern and his son jest told us niggers what to do and we did it, but 50 miles away dem niggers had a mean overseer, and dey called him "poor white trash", "old whooser", and sometime "old red neck", and he would sho' beat 'em turrible iffen dey didn't do jest like he wanted 'em to.
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He wasn't nothing but white trash.
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Bushwhacker, nothing but poor white trash, come thoo' and killed all the little nigger chillun they could lay hands on.
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The overseer was sho' nothing but poor white trash, the kind who didn't lak niggers and dey still don't, old devils.
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De patroller was low white trash what jest wanted a excuse to shoot niggers.
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They recognized the possibilities for making California a free State and did not care to be designated _Poor White Trash_ by masters who were being allowed to fill the State with Negro slaves to constitute the basis of an aristocracy like that in the South.
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But it was moonlight and we rode through a beautiful country dotted with royal châteaus,--the birthplaces of illustrious kings,--and I had my thoughts, and Clotilde and Cæsar had each other: for Cæsar was the first of her kind Clotilde had seen since coming to France, and much as she might enjoy the attentions of footmen in gorgeous liveries, after all they were only "white trash," and she loved best her own color.
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They all stuck to their text,--the embarkation of Clotilde at four o'clock on the afternoon previous in Paris,--and Clotilde was as stupid as heart could desire, professing absolute ignorance of her mistress's plans, and knowing only that she herself was being sent home to America because she was homesick; and with a negress's love of gratuitous insult when she thinks she is safe in offering it, she added in her creole dialect: "De Lord knows, I's sick o' white trash anyhow.
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I'se hear um say dey smell de lan' an' de time was 'rive to settle de white trash, dat what dey say, an' take ship.
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'Let the "white trash" see the dog's carcass!
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I do not run away like your white trash!
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"I'se no niggah slabe, you white trash!
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If God had not had mercy on the poor little Negro who attended the public school of Pennsylvania in those days, I know not what would have become of me; for the poor white trash from the teacher down had no mercy upon him.
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The greatest of all the cavalry commanders in a service that had so many, a born military genius, he was an illiterate mountaineer, belonging to that despised, and often justly despised, class known in the South as "poor white trash."
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Mr. Evans wasn't no po' white trash, but he was kinder middlin' like.
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How is I gwine to ever teach you anything, when you act jest like a nigger from some pore white trashes poor land?'
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The overseer was "poor white trash".
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Dar was a nigger wid wooden bottom shoes, dat stuck to dem Yankees and other po' white trash 'round dar.
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He been poor white trash, but he wuk haa'd and save he money and buy slave.
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He poor white trash but he daid now.
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(On Waccamaw--and same true of all south as all know--white overseers worst kind of 'White trash'--respected less by negroes than by whites) Nigger obersheer don't care too much.
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The boasted freedom of "poor white trash" or of "impudent free issue negroes" had no attractions to him who enjoyed these high prerogatives.
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Unambitious, ignorant, and improvident, frequently the "ne'er-do-wells" of the old families, ignored by the wealthy and spurned by the slaves, who gave them the name of "poor white trash," their lot was hard, indeed.
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It was formerly customary to throw most of the blame on the poor themselves, to charge them with being lazy, intemperate, vicious, and generally incompetent, and it is useless to deny that these appear to be the direct causes in great numbers of instances, but as much of the negro and poor white trash in the South was found to be due to hookworm infection, so very many of the faults of the shiftless poor in the cities are due more indirectly to lack of nourishment, of education, and of courage.
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A "nigger-driver," without schools, social position, or money, he was "the poor white trash" of the South.
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J. G. Forman._ Previous pursuits--In the hospitals in Tennessee in the summer and autumn of 1862--A remarkably skilful nurse--Services at Memphis--The Iowa soldier--She scales the fence to watch over him and minister to his needs, and at his death conveys his body to his friends, overcoming all difficulties to do so--In the Benton Barracks Hospital--Volunteers to nurse the patients in the erysipelas ward--Matron of the Refugee Home at St. Louis--"The poor white trash"--Matron of Soldiers' Orphans' Home at Farmington, Iowa.
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It was her intention to go on to Chattanooga, but she found it impossible at that time to procure transportation, and she and her friends at once commenced work among the refugees, the "poor white trash," who were then crowding into Nashville.
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Many of the refugees were of the class called "the poor white trash" of the South, filthy, ragged, proud, indolent, ill-mannered, given to the smoking and chewing of tobacco, often diseased, inefficient, and either unwilling or unable to conform to the necessary regulations of the Home, or to do their own proper share of the work of the household, and the keeping of their apartments in a state of cleanliness and order.
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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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The few remaining inhabitants were mostly women, negresses and children; now and then a disabled specimen of poor white trash, or a farmer too infirm to be of service in the rebel army, was to be met with.
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Its fair valleys desolate of inhabitants, or inhabited by low white trash, as idle as ignorant.
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"You damn po' white trash, shet yo' mouf or I'll mek you!
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Rivers did not become acquainted with Mrs. Maroney, as she was proud and arrogant, and would disdain to form the acquaintance of any low "white trash" like him.
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Our white folks warn't no pore white trash, and if my old Marster and Mist'ess was a-livin' today dey sho' would do somepin' for old Hailie in a hurry, 'cause dey allus give us plenty of evvything dey had."
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The people were divided into three classes--slave-holders, slaves, and poor whites, or "poor white trash" as the latter were called by the colored people because of their utter insignificance in that community.
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There is a class of "white trash" who have all the fierce and unruly instincts of that robber race, the Saxons, at whose door the lynchings and political uproars may be faithfully laid.
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As I have said, we're as irritable here, under the oppressions of the anthropologists as ever were slaves in the south toward superiorities from "poor white trash."
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The United States Government does not allow the Chinese to vote, yet tens of thousands of poor Americans, "white trash" in the South, ignorant negroes, low Irish and Italians who can not speak the tongue, are welcome and courted by both parties.
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The slaves in the camp looked down upon him, and spoke of him as the "meanest sort of Yankee white trash."
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To avoid witnessing its wrongs which made it harder for self-respecting white men to rise above the class referred to with contempt in the South as "poor white trash," Tom Lincoln determined to move farther north and west--and deeper into the wilds.
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Miss Arabella Jane--dat's your dear dead-an'-gone grandma's second cousin--had seven childern by her first husband,--he was a Patterson,--and nine by her second,--_he_ was a McKim,--and five--but 'tain't no use, honey; you don't 'pear to take no int'res' in yer own kith and kin, no more dan or'nary white trash.
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It seemed as if a section of Kentucky or Virginia had in some way usurped the geography of Eastern Indiana, bringing with it the discipline of the slave-master, and a considerable importation of "white trash."
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If not, why did he not recommend a "probation" for the hordes of "white trash" that were as unfit for political power as the negroes?
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"Both the negroes 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, good-humoredly; "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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The overseers and patterollers in the time of slavery were called poor white trash by the slaves.
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I knowed some pore white trash; our oberseer wuz one, an' de shim shams[3] wuz also nigh 'bout also.
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De oberseer, whose name I'se plumb forget, wuz pore white trash an' he wuz meaner dan de meanest nigger.
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Yes, we seed the patterollers, we called 'em pore white trash, we also called patterollers pore white pecks.
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Dey ain't had no slaves 'cept seben or eight, in fact, dey wuz pore white trash tryin' ter git rich; so dey make us wuck.
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Atter so long a time de rich folkses tried ter hire, er make de po' white trash go in dere places, but some of dem won't go.
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De only patterollers I knowed wuz Kenyan Jones an' Billy Pump an' dey wuz called po' white trash.
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Sometimes the sons of "poor white trash" take part in it; but it is usually delivered over to the "darkey."
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She, daughter of the erst proudest planter in all Mississippi State, has been slighted for a Creole girl; possibly, one of the "poor white trash" living along the bayous' edge.
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Still it is not a log-cabin; but a "frame-house," its walls of "weather-boarding," planed and painted, its roof cedar-shingled; a style of architecture occasionally seen in the Southern States, though not so frequently as in the Northern--inhabited by men in moderate circumstances, poorer than planters, but richer, or more gentle, than the "white trash," who live in log-cabins.
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The white population--the poor white trash, as the very negroes call them--are ignorant, brutal, and live in the squalor of savages.
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New England has her "white trash," as well as the South.
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Mrs. McMurray hurriedly came out, and ordered all her black servants in the house, as she said she didn't want her niggers contaminated with "sich white trash."
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There was a large Union meeting in Nashville, and an old house-servant of one of the most aristocratic rebel families, who hates "Lincolnites" and "poor white trash" as heartily as Jeff Davis does, was walking slowly along the square as the grand procession was forming.
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And all the constables looking arter me for law and order; and all the poor white trash, hunting of me for the reward; and not one of 'em all ever struck upon my trail, and me so nigh home all the while!"
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It's just like poor white trash!"
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What Northern observers mistake for the gentry of the South, when they report the participation of "leading citizens" in a lynching, is simply the office-holding and commercial bourgeoisie--the offspring of the poor white trash who skulked at home during the Civil War, robbing the widows and orphans of the soldiers at the front, and so laying the foundations of the present "industrial prosperity" of the section, _i.e._, its conversion from a region of large landed estates and urbane life into a region of stinking factories, filthy mining and oil towns, child-killing cotton mills, vociferous chambers of commerce and other such swineries.
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He was born like that, I guess sort o' poor white trash and his folks didn't find it out in time to smother him.
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Bivens, his schoolmate at college--Bivens, the little razorback scion of poor white trash from the South who had suddenly become a millionaire!
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Back of that marvellous vision he saw the figure of a bare-footed boy of the poor white trash of the South rising to a world empire.
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Poor white trash!
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But this thing had a gait that tied in with the slack way her skirt hung across her pelvic bones and hollered "White Trash!" at you.
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"They don't seem to mind it so much if it comes from a piece of white trash that never could be 'no account.'
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'Poor White trash' may endure and repay the contempt of their servile neighbors, but a man-owning aristocracy that has fought and been vanquished, can no longer command the respect or the obedience of its chattels.
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On the top of the coach, coiled away on a pile of horse-blankets, was a woman whose skin and dress designated her as one of the species of 'white trash' known in North-Carolina as 'clay-eaters.'
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B. McWilliams--My watch gone to the mermaids--The ignorance of "poor white trash" 121 FILE XVI Captain Bailey makes a capture--Sinclair introduces me (as Shaffer) to Mr. Pyle 132 FILE XVII A Confederate letter 136 FILE XVIII Confederate army invades Maryland in 1864--General Wallace's masterly defence of Washington--Trip outside our pickets--Confederate General Bradley Johnson and Colonel Harry Gilmor--The Ishmael Day episode-- Uncle Zoe--Arrest of Judge Richard Grason--Report on certain "Disloyals" 138 FILE XIX Trip to New York regarding one Thomas H. Gordon 149 FILE XX Thomas Bennett, a U. S. mail carrier, disloyal--Samuel Miles, a prominent Baltimore merchant, a blockade runner--A laughable letter about an overdraft of whiskey--Dr. E. Powell, of Richmond 151 FILE XXI Terrence R. Quinn 155 FILE XXII The Great Fraud attempted in the Presidential Election of 1864, wherein the misplacing of a single letter led to its detection and may be said to have saved our Nation from disruption--Involving Governor Seymour and Adjutant General Andrews--Arrest of Ferry, Donohue and Newcomb, one of the most successful kidnappings on record 159 FILE XXIII John Deegan, a forger, captured--A report that led to a historic raid by Colonel Baker on the Bounty Jumpers and Bounty Brokers of New York 175 FILE XXIV General Wallace's letter to Secretary of War, Charles A. Dana (afterwards editor of the New York "Sun") asking for an extension of territory for my work, incidentally introducing Colonel John S. Mosby, giving a list of his men and their home addresses--A train robbery, paymasters robbed--I recapture part of the money--Commissions in promotion declined 184 FILE XXV Capture of Confederate bonds and scrip--Arrest of Pittman, Brewer and Fowler; Lieut.
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B. McWilliams--My watch gone to the mermaids--The ignorance of "poor white trash."
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Many of the crews on such vessels were of the class called by the negroes "poor white trash," and they were ignorant beyond belief; to test which I once pointed out land to the east as being Ireland, to which they assented.
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Shall we insist upon a perfectly finished gentleman and scholar to vote down the traitors and white trash of this District, who have recently signalized themselves by mobbing unoffending negroes?
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And you will find, when it is too late, that the Southern planter will maintain the same political influence over the poor, uneducated, ignorant, and dependent African, even to a greater extent than he formerly exercised over what used to be called the 'poor white trash.'
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"The liberation of five millions of 'poor white trash,' from the second degree of slavery, and of three millions of miserable kidnapped negroes from the first degree, cannot be accomplished too soon."
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At one of the loveliest, called Cayos de Tana, with a wide fringe of white beach, we landed; that is, our boat ran toward it until the keel stuck in the sand, when a dozen black fellows sprang over into the water, and, taking us white trash on their shoulders, carried us ashore.
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Why don't you search all that white trash standin' there?"
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He has about as much use for white trash as you have."
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The most snuffle-nosed little mailing-girl on the office floor felt superior to all of the factory workers, even the foremen, quite as negro house-servants look down on poor white trash.
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Good-looking, but regular poor white trash.
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She briefly, but thoroughly, depicted him as alcohol-soaked, poor white trash.
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There were, in fact, few people at all in the vicinity--only an occasional negro shack or the similar shack of the "poor white trash," and a turpentine camp, several miles back in the pines.
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An' it wasn't ontel yestiddy afternoon dat I seen dis yere Marcum come galloping down on hossback, wid some poh white trash moonshiner ridin' wid 'im.
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Society to her was divided into quality white folks like the Earles, black folks like herself, and poor white trash like this waif; and between the first class and the third was there a great gulf fixed.
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The tilt of Lloyd's dainty nose, as she went in, said more plainly than words, "Poah white trash!"
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"Poor white trash!" he exclaimed.
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Give the white trash in this town to understand that they are not even citizens of the nation.
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They sang "John Brown's Body," and as its echoes died away a big negro swung his rifle in a circle over his head, shouting: "Here's your regulator for white trash!
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Quick, like his master, too, was Jo to discriminate between "real gentlefolks" and the "white trash" whose rough-coated, rope-harnessed mules were the general occupants of his stables.
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Don't you know that if you enrage white trash it is likely to do anything?