City men ran around in plaid Bermuda shorts and were generally weak and useless. City women were thin, nervous types who tended to be sick all the time. People seem to need an out-group to disapprove of. Unless, of course, you know otherwise. There's only so much water in the world, and it just keeps going round and round.
Low behavior is involved.
Thanks for the help. I put together the following after my daughter told me her teacher said poor white isn t a negative term. It s just what certain white people are called in the South, he said. Robert Hendrickson explains that poor white and poor white trash are not neutral terms used to refer to people who are white and poor. The poor whites were those who were both poor and conspicuously lacking the common social virtues and especially fell short of the standard in certain economic qualities.