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“Every era in the continent's vaunted developmental story had its own taxonomy of waste people-unwanted and unsalvageable. Each era had its own means of distancing its version of white trash from the mainstream ideal.”
Nancy Isenberg“I know i don't get the happily ever after. My knight and shinning armor took the highway detour around this godforsaken shit hole. I've made peace with that. That doesn't mean i'm going to lie down like a doormat and let every cocky prick in the trailer have his way with me." - White Trash Beautiful”
Teresa Mummert, White Trash Beautiful“For most Americans of the eighteenth century, it was assumed impossible for a servant to shed his lowly origins; the meaner sort, as one newspaper insisted, could never “wash out the stain of servility.” There were fears that the meaner sort were treading too close on the heels of those above them.”
Nancy Isenberg, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America“The memory of the previous nights fun and games rose again. Hell this whole week had been weird. With the attack at the boat launch being the shit flavored ice cream on top of the crazy pie.”
Diana Rowland, White Trash Zombie Apocalypse“Just because I'm insane doesn't mean I have to act all crazy.”
Diana Rowland, My Life as a White Trash Zombie“More than any other colonial founder, Oglethorpe made himself one of the people, promoting collective effort.”
Nancy Isenberg, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America“When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there’s always a chance that the dancing bear will win.”
Nancy Isenberg, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America“A Manhattan lawyer who describes himself as "America`s leading expert on the militia movement" writes that he hugged his three-year-old kid the night of the Oklahoma City bombing. He told junior that it happened "because they hated too much"For now, let`s accept the premise that one hundred sixty-eight humans died in Oklahoma City because people "hated too much"Now answer these questions if you would be so kind: did a federal sniper shoot Vicki Weaver in the face because he hated too much? Did our government conduct the Tuskegee with syphilis on black soldiers because it hated too much? ”
Jim Goad, The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats