Black Popular Culture
It is used among blacks as an attack against whites. Use of "white trash" epithets has been extensively reported in the African American culture. Black authors have noted that blacks, when taunted by whites as "niggers," taunted back, calling them "white trash," and the black parents taught their children that poor whites were "white trash". The epithet appears in black folklore. In it, slaves (when out of earshot) would refer to harsh overseers as a "low down" man, "lower than poor white trash," "a brute, really."
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—Federico García Lorca (1898–1936)
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