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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vraille Darkfang" data-source="post: 2659653" data-attributes="member: 16989">Let me explain the "White Trash Stereotype" I used.I used it as the best descriptor of her that I could manage with as few words as possible.  I'm not saying she IS 'White Trash', I'm saying the sterotype about a 'White Trash' person's Economic/Social/Educational level is spot on when it comes to her.  I've grown up in rural Missouri.  I now live in Boonville, MO.  Which is Rural Southern MO.  In fact, during the Civil War, Boonville was named the Southern Capital of Missouri (Mo being split 50/50 between North/South).  I've been around poeple like her all my life.  While not getting into a long off-topic rant.  I will simply say I've known hundreds of 'white trash' (or people who fit the scocio/economic profile).  Most are nice people.  Heck in my games I've got one 'White Trash' in my games (freely admits it, prefers Redneck).However, 'White Trash' has negative connotations.  I did not mean to impress the negative connotaions onto her (though some of them apply, from what I've dealt with).So, my use of the term "White Trash"  was to evoke an idea of her background, not to be used as a personal attack upon her.So, if my use of this term has led you to any impressions of her beyond that, re-think them.  If I had to describe her again.  I'd say a middle-aged woman of lower income, poor education, and raised in that some environment, probablly expects here kids to be in that environment too.  Cycle of poverty is the term (although she's above that, at present).Oh, if people say she CAN'T afford to get here cat registered/shots/neutered etc.  She could, IF she'd cut back on her smoking.  Still have yet to see her without a cigarette.In closing, let me repeat.  I've been around people like her all my life.  Some are very good friends of mine.  I've seen some lift themselves out of their situation.  I've seen others try and fail.  I've seen others denied the oppurtunity.  I've seen others screw it up.  But, mostly, I've seen a sort of acceptance of Fate that saddens me.  Part of my greivance with the woman is more do to her acceptence that her life 'is that way it should be'.A good deal of this, people outside of rural, agricultural areas probablly won't understand this.  I'd recommend looking up the early life of former President Jimmy Carter to get a feel for it.Or:"You know, I might have been born just plain white trash, But Fancy was my name."Reba McEntire</blockquote>

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