High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! White trash is an American English pejorative term referring to individual or groups of lower social class Caucasian people that the speaker considers to lack social status. It is most frequently used as a slur to describe financially, economically or culturally disadvantaged Caucasians. It may also be used self-referentially by white North Americans with higher socio-economic status to jokingly describe limitations they sense in their culture and may also be used as a within-group expression among disadvantaged white Americans to express solidarity. At various points in the 20th and 19th centuries, the term was frequently prefixed by poor to form the unit "poor white trash." "White trash" should be differentiated from the term "redneck", as each has a unique historical etymology and context in modern usage.