ABSTRACT
W hite Trash. I believe the first time I heard that term was when I saw Gone With the Wind, referring to some pretty creepy people, dirt
poor, sneaking, conniving, violent tenant farmers, or migrant cotton pickers maybe. At the time I saw that blockbuster picture show my father was alternately a tenant farmer, migrant cotton picker, and ranch hand, but I did not for one minute identify with those whom the planters and the enslaved Africans termed white trash in that movie.
