Cultural critic Jim Goad explains that the redneck and white trash stereotypes fit all of the traditional scapegoat requirements: rednecks and white trash have biological differences (buck toothed, inbred, and stupid); geographic and regional differences (rural areas and trailer parks); economic differences (sick, lazy, and dirty); cultural differences (loud, superstitious, and excessive); and moral differences (racist, violent, and alcoholic). Full article
Poster Comment:
The full article is far too long, and covers too much ground, but the author is pointing out something very true: while we're not supposed to say bad things about any minority, be they black or Mexican or gay or Jew, the one group which is pretty much invisible to the media (and which it is okay to mock and disdain), are the white working classes.