White-trash pride: Working-class Anglos are having a moment
August 26, 2016 Updated: August 26, 2016 9:28am
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Then: In 1973, Driver Bobby Allison holds up a confederate flag with Miss Winston, Noneen Hulbert, before the Alamo 500 race at the Texas World Speedway in College Station.
White trash, trailer trash, rednecks, hillbillies, squatters, crackers, goobers, bubbas — all the names for these people are insulting. Their avatars in the culture, from Honey Boo-Boo to Bob and Mayella Ewell in "To Kill a Mockingbird," are the opposite of inspiring.
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