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“In the main they're a lazy, vagabond, poor-white sort, who do nothing else but skin the soil and move, skin the soil and move.”
“The availability of the ancient cypress trees, the alluvial soil that was among the most fertile in the world, the untapped oil and natural-gas domes that had waited aeons for the penetration of the diamond-crusted Hughes drill bit, and, most important, the low cost of black and poor-white labor seemed like the ultimate fulfillment of a corporate dream that only a divine hand could have fashioned.”
“A mentally disturbed girl reading a textbook called Human Development in a doctor's waiting room suddenly throws the book at the head of a garrulous middle-class woman who holds herself above "poor-white trash" ( "Revelation").”
“By the early 1930s most practicing midwives were black or poor-white granny midwives working in the rural south.”
“He used to sell fire and accident and term life insurance from door to door in black and poor-white neighborhoods, and was infamous for both his sweaty enthusiasm and his carnival sales rhetoric.”
“All the farmers were the sunburned poor-white prototype that Davis narrowly escaped being one of.”
Hollywood Nocturne
“The group represented an area of Minneapolis that was primarily African-American, with a small poor-white population.”
“His real name was something poor-white that I tried not ever to think about, and Jiggs seemed better suited anyway to his stubby shape and the thick, clear-rimmed spectacles that he very soon had to start wearing.”
Earthly Possessions
“Nothing but a poor-white tenant farmer with one pair of shiny britches and a polka-dot bow tie, he thought.”
“Big yawning cracks in cold weather were in a way the hall-mark of poor-white cabins.”
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