You know them today by such familiar, snide terms as “rednecks,” “white trash,” “trailer trash,” “goobers” and “crackers.” They’re the sneered-upon among us. That last term is a linguistic first ...
American historian and the author of White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America, Nancy Isenberg, calls Republican vice-presidential nominee JD Vance a peddler of the “self-made man ...