Talk:Trailer trash

This article was nominated for deletion on 08 January 2006. The result of the discussion was keep and redirect. An archived record of this discussion can be found here.

Trailer park trash is not an ethnic slur. To think that it is, you are inherently being racist since you are assuming that only white people live in trailer parks. What kind of PC freak decided it was an ethnic slur? I bet city people thought this up. By the way, city people is not an ethnic slur either. Give a few months and wikipedia will decide city people is an ethnic slur too.

It's a slur, but it's a classist slur, rather than an ethnic slur.--RLent 19:58, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Trailer living

I've trimmed this article's information about how wonderful it is to live in a mobile home. It doesn't seem particularly cogent to the discussion of the origin of the term. --ESP 30 June 2005 17:23 (UTC)

Merge?

Is there any real difference between this and poor white trash? —BenFrantzDale 23:03, 9 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

-Yes, there is a huge difference. 'Trailer Trash' is a term that is classist, referencing poor financial standing. 'Poor White Trash' is a term that is both classist AND racist. 'Trailer Trash' is not race-specific, though you may bring your own associations to the word. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.212.133.98 (talk) 23:22, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Require lots of space?

It seems odd to say that trailer parks require large amounts of space, since they're a more dense type of housing than most types of suburban or rural housing. So I'm changing this to something that makes more sense to me. Please modify if anyone thinks it could be clearer. --Allen 05:23, 26 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Am I the only person?

Am I the only person that thinks that articles on slang words that are commonly known are useless? This should be deleted. --Shell 04:52, 8 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

→ It really depends on who's reading it. An immigrant to the U.S. who heard the word in conversation might find it very informative to be able to look it up on Wikipedia. BAW 22:17, 24 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

→ Absolutely agree. I am not a native English speaker, but do have a lot of business with Americans. Articles like this one help a lot to understand the "non-work-related" discussions. Please leave it in.

Writing from Italy, and having just seen an American movie, I found this article useful. 151.51.40.235 (talk) 00:47, 29 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

white only?

To suggest that trailer trash can only be white seems racist to me. Why should that be? --Rebroad 22:21, 22 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It probably shouldn't be. On the other hand, that's just the stereotype. On the other hand (I have three), changing the definition of an insult to include a wider target doesn't help things much.

-I agree with the first comment. It seems quite racist to claim that only whites can be labeled as 'trailer trash'. There is no evidence to support this claim whatsoever. People of all races can and DO live in trailers. This term has no specific relation to white people or to the term "white trash", which IS race-specific. I have removed references to 'white people', 'white trash' and any text which stated AS FACT that this is the case. I also removed a large list of racial slurs which seem only to pertain to whites from the bottom of the page. This slur is a term which references financial status, not race. Pages such as this should be treated very carefully because false information such as this is actually propagating racism instead of educating the ignorant. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.212.133.98 (talk) 23:17, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

White people are tt with their mullet, ripped jeans, rotten teeth, meth-ruined skin, and El Caminos.67.78.233.99 (talk) 05:27, 22 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well, minority populations are highest in cities and lowest in rural areas, for a variety of socioeconomic reasons. The fact is that Trailer Parks are the Ghettos of rural areas, and so just as white people can indeed live in the Ghetto, black people can indeed live in Trailer Parks. This doesn't change the racial stereotype associated with each. Yes they are racist and classist, but you can't whitewash that and say "We can't have a mention of whiteness on this page because that's racist." because you're in denial. If you really care THAT much, and aren't just trying to rid wikipedia of any bad stereotypes of white people, then go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghetto#United_States and start an argument about how it's racist to associate African Americans with ghettos in America. 128.2.51.144 (talk) 14:36, 10 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Tornado bait

Isnt this term used with Trailer Trash as well? --Halaqah 23:08, 25 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

How about some references?

Comeon, this is borderline uncyclopedia grade stuff "Park managers, usually portly women, usually reside in the parks' finest double-wide coaches and have their wheels sunk into the earth for a more finished style and may even have their banisters upgraded from the standard metal to real oak wood."?? . --82.83.191.196 21:57, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Trailer house parks off limits to US military.

The US Military has told its personnel that many trailer house parks are off limits. The reasoning is trailer house parks have a high amount of drugs. Note the Army, Marines, and Navy personnel who have been in war in Iraq and have traveled to dangerous places around the world are not allowed to enter many trailer parks, even if their family lives there. Source: Sibling is in the Army.

Photo has been deleted

Hello. I deleted the photo, which was placed within this article because it was in no way visibly depicting a 'trailer park' or even a single 'mobile home'. For the level of detail visible within that photo it was definitely unclear as to whether or not the homes depicted in it were mobile or stationary. This could potentially be a photograph of a few solidly founded houses and not mobile homes/trailers. There simply isn't enough detail to tell. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.106.7.0 (talk) 05:37, 27 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"Doing nothing and still complaining about it"

This description of "Amie" sounds unencyclopedic, and the paragraph concerning the Fox show about "supposed trailer trash" sounds a little like vanity posting to me. — Rickyrab | Talk 21:41, 8 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]