| 词汇 | poor white |
| 词源 | poor white. According to W. T. Couch, in Culture in the South (1941): “In discriminating Southern speech, it [poor white] was not used to include all white persons who were poor. . . . The ‘poor whites’ were those who were both poor and conspicuously lacking in the common social virtues and espe- cially fell short of the standard in certain economic qualities.” An old black southern rhyme goes: My name is Sam, I don’t give a damn. I’d rather be black Than a poor white man. |
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