poor white in English

noun
1
a member of an impoverished white underclass, especially one living in the southern US.

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1. Poor white trash.

2. There's nothing you can do with this poor white trash.

3. Poor, white farmers, especially in the former Confederate States of America The 'po Buckra started a riot in Alabama

4. 29 Being poor white, they were not even accorded the" grudging respect that Angus Macintosh's dour independence wrung from neighboring families."

5. Andre Coetzee, drinks a mug of coffee at a squatter camp for poor white South Africans at Coronation Park in Krugersdorp, South Africa on March 20

6. Children play on a tire being used to block the entrance to a squatter camp for poor white South Africans at Coronation Park in Krugersdorp on March 20

7. Chesnutt, The Marrow of Tradition‎[1]: The captain was an upstart, a product of the democratic idea operating upon the poor white man, the descendant of the indentured Bondservant and the socially unfit

8. In the rest of O'Donnell's summary, Lee Goodwin, a bootlegger whom Temple helps convict for a crime he did not commit, is Allegorized as "Poor White Trash," and Horace Benbow, who unsuccessfully defends Goodwin, as "the Formalized Tradition."