11. _Abraham Lincoln was the son of a black woman and a man who was " poor white trash ." 12. Could she play Starling, the feisty West Virginian " not more than one generation from poor white trash "? 13. If somebody called her " poor white trash , " she probably wouldn't put up much of a fight. 14. A : The mail-order retailer Poor White Trash is selling a " trailer trash doll " for $ 48. 15. Even at 13, my classmates and I knew enough to conclude that poor white trash were just as dumb as they were poor. 16. "In those days the slang was ` poor white trash ,'and a lot of people called us that," 17. It's the poor white trash lifestyle, seen through a precious lens, as Kerrigan takes on the government and its preening lawyers. 18. "I've written about the vindication of poor white trash , " she says, " and I am that vindication. 19. The consensus was that " Poor White Trash " was " silly and over-the-top, but not very funny ." 20. In 1854, Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the chapter " Poor White Trash " in her book " A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin ".