Talk:Trailer trash

message: Trailer park trash is not an ethnic slur.  To think that it is, you are inherently being racist since you are assuming that only white people live in trailer parks.  What kind of PC freak decided it was an ethnic slur?  I bet city people thought this up.  By the way, city people is not an ethnic slur either.  Give a few months and wikipedia will decide city people is an ethnic slur too.
:It's a slur, but it's a classist slur, rather than an ethnic slur.--RLent 19:58, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: (Untitled)

message: Is there any real difference between this and poor white trash? —BenFrantzDale 23:03, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge? 

message: It seems odd to say that trailer parks require large amounts of space, since they're a more dense type of housing than most types of suburban or rural housing.  So I'm changing this to something that makes more sense to me.  Please modify if anyone thinks it could be clearer.  --Allen 05:23, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Require lots of space? 

message: Am I the only person that thinks that articles on slang words that are commonly known are useless? This should be deleted. --Shell 04:52, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I also know this term only by tv or movie, and think it's pretty self-explanatory. However a record in an encyclopaedia should at least require date and origin of first usage.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.115.83.92 (talk) 10:02, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Am I the only person? 

message: Isnt this term used with Trailer Trash as well? --Halaqah 23:08, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Tornado bait

message: Comeon, this is borderline uncyclopedia grade stuff "Park managers, usually portly women, usually reside in the parks' finest double-wide coaches and have their wheels sunk into the earth for a more finished style and may even have their banisters upgraded from the standard metal to real oak wood."?? . --82.83.191.196 21:57, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: How about some references?

message: The US Military has told its personnel that many trailer house parks are off limits.  The reasoning is trailer house parks have a high amount of drugs.  Note the Army, Marines, and Navy personnel who have been in war in Iraq and have traveled to dangerous places around the world are not allowed to enter many trailer parks, even if their family lives there.  Source: Sibling is in the Army.
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There are better and there are worse trailer parks. Obviously any trailer park in which meth is readily available is a potential menace to military discipline, which could be more troublesome than violence.  But this said, trailer parks hold people who are best described simply as poor -- such as elderly people who cannot afford staying in single-family dwellings or overpriced apartments, migrant farm workers, and young families saving for a down payment on a single-family house or condominium. Some are part-time residents escaping harsh winters of the American North. I have done Census work  and I have done political canvassing. Some trailer parks have severe blight, and some have no obvious blight. I can say the same of apartment complexes and neighborhoods of single-family houses, too. 
The words 'trailer trash' suggest an ugly, and unmerited stereotype. Just because people are priced out of first-rate housing does not mean that the people are scum.Pbrower2a (talk) 23:04, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trailer house parks off limits to US military. 

message: Hello. I deleted the photo, which was placed within this article because it was in no way visibly depicting a 'trailer park' or even a single 'mobile home'. For the level of detail visible within that photo it was definitely unclear as to whether or not the homes depicted in it were mobile or stationary. This could potentially be a photograph of a few solidly founded houses and not mobile homes/trailers. There simply isn't enough detail to tell.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.106.7.0 (talk) 05:37, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo has been deleted 

message: This description of "Amie" sounds unencyclopedic, and the paragraph concerning the Fox show about "supposed trailer trash" sounds a little like vanity posting to me.  —  Rickyrab | Talk 21:41, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: "Doing nothing and still complaining about it"

message: There are many individuals in this country that have trailer park pasts.  Especially those who have family members that were in World War 2.  I, myself, have had family members that returned from that war and lived in trailers for some time.  They lived there until they could find work, and get themselves established.  They went on to become members of the so called affluent upper crusts.  Even millionaires.  If you talk to those still with us today or their children, they never lived thin those places.  There have been many, that have had poor beginnings.  If people would do more research on what they refer to as trash, they would be surprised.  At one time if you came from certain staes, you were referred to as trash.  If you lived in certain neighborhoods in cities, you were refered to as trash.  In fact, the city I live in there are now areas that were refered as trash, that are now considered the place to live.  The affluent and wealthy live in those neighborhoods now.  In fact they consider themselves as the cultured people.  Some of the areas are now refered as being one of the best places to live.  Maybe the younger people should start researching newspaper archives a little better, if those archives still exist.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.7.24.165 (talk) 09:03, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  People with Trailer Trash Legacires 

message: Some other TT characteristics that surface when You ask the Question "What does Trailer trash mean??.:divorced or un-married, Salvation Army shopper, fast-food client, bad or missing teeth, dyed hair, slutty looks, etc. But how do you work them into the article? For sure it does NOT mean everyone that lives in a trailer park nor does it solely mean 'poor'. Its more a life style choice rather than a result of social strata. Also...the previous image showed a place, a random photo of a trailer and a driveway and a drivable (it seems) car with some stored lumber,  with zero purpose to describe TT. No image is better than that image!Buster Seven Talk 16:27, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Article for Improvement/2015

message: The In art, entertainment, and media section seems to be original research. In particular, the two entries in the Television subsection are highly dubious. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 09:34, 20 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  In popular culture