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In the discussion thread: "White Trash" or "Redneck", which do you prefer? [View all]

Tue Jul 31, 2012, 04:13 PM

33. The term is actually FILTHY rich

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and that has more to do with what a rich person does with money than the amount of money they have.

The filthy rich stink with the smell of their greed. Their compassion is made measly by their enjoyment of being in a better place than everyone else.

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63 replies	Author	Time	Post
"White Trash" or "Redneck", which do you prefer? [View all]	Fumesucker	Jul 2012	OP
My grandfather identified his Presbyterian Ulster-Scots ancestors	HereSince1628	Jul 2012	#1
We called ours "Country"	NightWatcher	Jul 2012	#2
rest of the song	Go Vols	Aug 2012	#56
I prefer to be called a hick from the sticks.	Odin2005	Jul 2012	#3
I'm one of those too-	Bluerthanblue	Jul 2012	#19
I resemble that!	get the red out	Jul 2012	#27
I know it's meant to be amusing but I wish you hadn't posted	cali	Jul 2012	#4
Redneck isn't all that great either.	HappyMe	Jul 2012	#5
White Trash is extremely racist	Bandit	Jul 2012	#7
I haven't read it used as an insult on DU?	Fumesucker	Jul 2012	#8
What?	HappyMe	Jul 2012	#13
I didn't say you used it, I said I've read it on DU many times..	Fumesucker	Jul 2012	#17
I was replying to Bandit.	HappyMe	Jul 2012	#21
Sorry..	Fumesucker	Jul 2012	#22
Sorry, I was replying to the OP...Don't know how it made the reply to you.	Bandit	Aug 2012	#44
No problem.	HappyMe	Aug 2012	#45
there's even more to it than that . . . .	zazen	Jul 2012	#24
The best way to defuse the power of an intended insult is to laugh at it and embrace it..	Fumesucker	Jul 2012	#6
I am most comfortable with "Cracker"	slackmaster	Jul 2012	#9
I should have thought of that, I've actually been to an Atlanta Crackers game..	Fumesucker	Jul 2012	#11
I had actually heard of the Atlanta Crackers, but not the Atlanta Black Crackers	slackmaster	Jul 2012	#12
White trash is different from Redneck	flamingdem	Jul 2012	#10
Dead dear?	Fumesucker	Jul 2012	#15
Only those near and deer	flamingdem	Jul 2012	#31
As a 3rd generation Florida Cracker I feel I am qualified to say white trash can have	retread	Jul 2012	#20
dear me	flamingdem	Jul 2012	#29
I remember when Governor Lawton Chiles expressed pride for the "Florida Cracker".	mia	Aug 2012	#43
Your Redneck Past	RandiFan1290	Jul 2012	#14
slack-jawed yokel	Enrique	Jul 2012	#16
Cletus? Is that you?	Fumesucker	Jul 2012	#18
George Wallace said we couldn't be rednecks cause of all	retread	Jul 2012	#23
I think I'd rather be called white trash.	LuvNewcastle	Jul 2012	#25
+1,000,000 (I like that reasoning)	Tom Ripley	Aug 2012	#51
Birthbagging, inbred, angry white trash morans is about right. LOL n/t	brewens	Jul 2012	#26
Just do not call me "trailer trash."	RebelOne	Jul 2012	#28
My girlfriend actually sells a t-shirt that says, "Mess With Me and Yer Messin' With	brewens	Jul 2012	#35
Good one. I may want to buy it. n/t	RebelOne	Aug 2012	#62
Neither	loyalsister	Jul 2012	#30
My TN understanding of the terms..	4_TN_TITANS	Jul 2012	#32
The term is actually FILTHY rich	HereSince1628	Jul 2012	#33
I've always been fond of "white trash."	CTyankee	Jul 2012	#34
I had to chuckle at your post as I am reminded	cordelia	Aug 2012	#52
Oh, there's more than enough to go around up here in CT too.	CTyankee	Aug 2012	#55
Redneck girls are too religious for me so I go with the White Trash girls.... I like 'em.	Edweird	Jul 2012	#36
I was wondering.....is Hillbilly diff than redneck ? i would say that what I call Hillbilly	lunasun	Aug 2012	#59
I'm surprised this hasn't been hidden.	pintobean	Jul 2012	#37
Both terms are used regularly on DU..	Fumesucker	Aug 2012	#38
Served on a jury a week ago- alert for "white trash."	hay rick	Aug 2012	#40
Of course you would	libodem	Aug 2012	#47
Why? this thread is a civil discussion.	RC	Aug 2012	#63
Other: Whiteneck.	cherokeeprogressive	Aug 2012	#39
Quite a few of my family are rednecks-none are white trash. I've known many people proud of being	Rowdyboy	Aug 2012	#41
Redneck.	bluedigger	Aug 2012	#42
I like to mix it up.	Ganja Ninja	Aug 2012	#46
don't forget..."lower than ditch dirt".	dixiegrrrrl	Aug 2012	#53
I can't choose	libodem	Aug 2012	#48
i am decended of a long line of scotch irish rednecks	arely staircase	Aug 2012	#49
Whiskey Tango	underseasurveyor	Aug 2012	#50
I think "redneck" can be perceived in a good natured, joking way...Calling people "trash" can not.	whathehell	Aug 2012	#54
Depends on what you're talking about.	Island Blue	Aug 2012	#57
If I have to pick a term to be used to demean and marginalize me...	NewMoonTherian	Aug 2012	#58
"Snowbillies" is heard sometimes here in Minnesota.	hifiguy	Aug 2012	#60
So now that the box is opened up is it okay to use wigger too?	snooper2	Aug 2012	#61

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