# You might be white trash if.... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 11, 2003, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-white-trash-if/194492 "2003-08-11T22:15:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![80sHairMetalMaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/8/ed655f/32.png) [@80sHairMetalMaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/80sHairMetalMaven)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-white-trash-if/194492/1 "2003-08-11T22:15:24Z")
Your wife has said to you, “Come move this transmission so I can take a shower/bath.” You’ve ever hit a deer (or other animal) with your car, _deliberately_. Your old mattress is _so_ nasty, even the Salvation Army won’t take it. You keep a can of RAID on your kitchen table next to the salt and pepper shakers. You’ve ever been too drunk to fish. Your lifetime goal is to own your own fireworks stand. You think a subdivision is part of a math problem. There is at least one spittoon in your house. The gas pedal in your car is shaped like a footprint of a bare foot. You’ve gotten one or more tattoos financed. You’d rather dig wax out of your ear with the truck keys than a Q-Tip. You think loading the dishwasher means getting your wife drunk., IDBB:D ---
**Author:** ![bernse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@bernse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bernse)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-white-trash-if/194492/2 "2003-08-11T22:21:41Z")
Your vehicles mudflaps have an image of Yosemite Sam (or the chrome profile of a naked chick) You have a sticker of Calvin pissing on something on your back window At least one room of your home has a flag as a curtain ---
**Author:** ![80sHairMetalMaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/8/ed655f/32.png) [@80sHairMetalMaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/80sHairMetalMaven)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-white-trash-if/194492/3 "2003-08-11T22:29:06Z")
I almost forgot one. You have the name of you and your significant other in faux Gothic print stickers on the back window of your truck. IDBB ---
**Author:** ![SkyBum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@SkyBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkyBum)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-white-trash-if/194492/4 "2003-08-11T22:38:32Z")
Apparently I _am_ white trash because I have a wolf t-shirt. _And I’ve worn it several times._ ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-white-trash-if/194492/5 "2003-08-11T22:45:11Z")
Your eyeshadow is the color of the sky, sparkly, and can be measured with a dipstick. ---
**Author:** ![bernse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@bernse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bernse)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-white-trash-if/194492/6 "2003-08-11T22:47:06Z")
OK - Here is a question: What is the difference between _White Trash_ and a _Redneck_? ---
**Author:** ![80sHairMetalMaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/8/ed655f/32.png) [@80sHairMetalMaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/80sHairMetalMaven)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-white-trash-if/194492/7 "2003-08-11T22:49:42Z")
LOL You still think that big leather cowboy hats, silver buckles the size of a child’s head and steel-tipped pointytoed boots with your jeans TUCKED IN are still in fashion. You favor airbrushed teeshirts depicting various wildlife and/or Native Americans over other types of tees. You have own three or more teeshirts with logos depicting alcoholic beverages and scantily clad women. You never took down your Cheryl Ladd and/or Bo Derek posters. You own a mirror with the logo of an alcoholic beverage on it. You think getting a ‘real home’ means buying a cheap ‘manufactured home’ from [Palm Harbor](http://www.palmharbor.com/index2.asp) or another [manufactured home](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Manufactured+home) distributor. Your favorite website is [White Trash World](http://www.whitetrashworld.com/). You have now, or have ever sported a mullet. IDBB ---
**Author:** ![fizzestothetop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e79b87/32.png) [@fizzestothetop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fizzestothetop)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-white-trash-if/194492/8 "2003-08-11T23:07:17Z")
It wasn’t really that funny when Jeff Foxworthy did it and called it “You might be a redneck…” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![80sHairMetalMaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/8/ed655f/32.png) [@80sHairMetalMaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/80sHairMetalMaven)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-white-trash-if/194492/9 "2003-08-12T01:13:44Z")
Maybe to you it wasn’t. I’m from the South and I think I laughed harder at his albums than any Yank did because every single thing he said was completely true about the South. IDBB:D ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-white-trash-if/194492/10 "2003-08-12T01:18:49Z")
You might be white trash (or a redneck) is, instead of a flyswatter, you have a twenty-two. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-white-trash-if/194492/11 "2003-08-12T01:28:44Z")
My favorite Foxworthy-ism is still “If you’ve ever had to shimmy up a water tower at midnight with a can o’paint to defend your sister’s honor, you might be a redneck.” ---
**Author:** ![misshornypenny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@misshornypenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misshornypenny)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-white-trash-if/194492/12 "2003-08-12T01:45:13Z")
I think white trash is a big category. A redneck is a special type of white trash… usually one with a farmer’s tan and a hole in the crotch of his pants. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-white-trash-if/194492/13 "2003-08-12T01:52:25Z")
You might be white trash if you rip off someone else’s definitions of rednecks for your OP. For example: [http://members.tripod.com/~SilvrWolf/h4.html](http://members.tripod.com/~SilvrWolf/h4.html) IDBB, are all Southerners white trash? Does “white trash” apply only to Southerners? Excuse me. I have to go now. The front porch just fell in and killed three of my dogs. ---
**Author:** ![rolandgunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@rolandgunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rolandgunslinger)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-white-trash-if/194492/14 "2003-08-12T01:58:12Z")
My favorite If you wear a dress thats strapless and a bra thats not. ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-white-trash-if/194492/15 "2003-08-12T01:58:46Z")
You pay for your trailer by the week. Your car is sporting more than one little spare tire. Formal wear is any t-shirt without holes. You dream of the days you can afford a double-wide. One or more of your relatives have been injured by a tornado in a trailer park. You have three cars but only two batteries. You get a set of jumper cables for Christmas. You buy duct tape by the case. You wear your good teeth when you go to a wedding or funeral. ---
**Author:** ![Jaade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dfb087/32.png) [@Jaade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaade)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-white-trash-if/194492/16 "2003-08-12T02:03:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zoe \* > \*\*You might be white trash if you rip off someone else’s definitions of rednecks for your OP. > > For example: [http://members.tripod.com/~SilvrWolf/h4.html](http://members.tripod.com/~SilvrWolf/h4.html) > > IDBB, are all Southerners white trash? Does “white trash” apply only to Southerners? > > Excuse me. I have to go now. The front porch just fell in and killed three of my dogs. \*\* Zoe, let me answer for IDBB… Hell no, and no… And for the question of rednecks and white trash: You can be a redneck without being white trash, you cannot be white trash without a bit of redneck… Rednecks tend to be hard working people, just not usually overly educated or classy…White trash usually denotes a lazier person. (And we, of the preservation of Southern gentality, are highly offended you would deem us all white trash.) Well, I’m trying not to be, but it’s hard! ~J ---
**Author:** ![IUHomer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/90db22/32.png) [@IUHomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IUHomer)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-white-trash-if/194492/17 "2003-08-12T02:14:12Z")
You own a subscription to Biblical Archaeology Digest. I only mention this because I was forced to go to Wal-Mart this week and was desperately in search of a decent magazine when I realized Wal-Mart has to have the absolute worst magazine selection of any store around. Its basically Nascar, monster trucks, tattoos, 50 different selections of country home decoration ideas (flags, ducks and more flags) and the above mentioned magazine. ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-white-trash-if/194492/18 "2003-08-12T02:14:29Z")
You have more than three tattoos that are cover-ups. Your third and fifth ex-wife are the same person, and she’s currently your sister in-law. You reload your own shotgun shells. You’re particular about your brand of snuff. You can’t understand why all beer brands don’t come in quarts. You skinned your first opossum before you were 13. ---
**Author:** ![80sHairMetalMaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/8/ed655f/32.png) [@80sHairMetalMaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/80sHairMetalMaven)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-white-trash-if/194492/19 "2003-08-12T02:51:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jaade \* > \*\* > And for the question of rednecks and white trash: > > You can be a redneck without being white trash, you cannot be white trash without a bit of redneck… > > Rednecks tend to be hard working people, just not usually overly educated or classy…White trash usually denotes a lazier person. > > (And we, of the preservation of Southern gentality, are highly offended you would deem us all white trash.) Well, I’m trying not to be, but it’s hard! > > ~J \*\* _insert clapping smiley here_ Thank you, Jaade, for defending all us Southerners. 🙂 I consider myself a bit of a Goth Redneck. I know people who are white trash, but I do not attempt to associate with them unless I am forced to for some reason. IDBB ---
**Author:** ![Blonde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Blonde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blonde)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-white-trash-if/194492/20 "2003-08-12T02:54:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bernse \* > \*\*OK - Here is a question: > > What is the difference between _White Trash_ and a _Redneck_? \*\* An excellent question. It is a very fine line indeed - but I’ll take a stab at it (I’m a native Texas too, so I have the qualifications). WARNING: THESE ARE ALL GROSS EXAGGERATIONS, NOT MEANT TO OFFEND ANYONE!! White Trash: Walmart, feathered hair (I swear I still see this - you know what I mean? All straight, except little “wings” on the side.), trailer homes, heavy metal listeners (I LOVE heavy metal, hmm). Redneck: Cowboys hat, snuff, rodeo, boots, country music. I’m with the white trash camp. And wolf shirts are NOT white trash!! So there. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-white-trash-if/194492.md?page=2)