<HTML>In a message dated 2/24/2003 10:35:44 AM Pacific Standard Time, sokol@jhu.edu writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Perhaps "white trash" was not the best  choice of words.  But what alternative term would you use to describe the group of self-righteous, arrogant whites, predominantly males, who feel that they are entitled to the life style and consumption level  they have, holding disparaging views of any other ethinic group (including other "whites" such as Europeans or Jews) and women,  ethnocentric (or "patriotic"), deferential toward authority figures, ignorant, displaying philistine attitueds toward culture and learning,  favorably responding to the most debased calls and causes, and deriving thinly veiled pleasure form suffering inflicted on others?  We are talking about half or so of the US population here - so it would be helpful to agree on the proper term. Wojtek </BLOCKQUOTE> Bubbas? Springer guests? What happens if you say "po' black trash?" Bigotry in fact comes in several colors, but that may be a different problem. DoreneC</HTML>