As the sharecropper song went, ‘I’d druther be a Nigger, an’ plow ole Beck, Dan a white Hill Billy wid his long red neck.’ 44 Variously, they have also been called lubbers, offscourings, crackers, hillbillies, clay-eaters, low-downers, degenerates, white niggers and trailer trash. The term white trash has been around for two centuries and is still very much in use.
