I grew up in Texas, all branches of my mother's family, including the Craigs had been in either Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri, or Texas since before the Revolution. All but one was English or Scottish and they were Dutch .... pretty dour bunch all in all and moderately successful but never rich. In that context, no one even used the term "white trash" because that would have been a common term and not appropriate. But I did know that I didn't get my ears pierced and that I would go to college and wear dresses and not go out at night without an escort, etc. All in all, not a bad way to be raised... but pretty boring by today's standards. My concept of "white trash" now is double wides and methanphetamines. I know that there are good people who live in trailers but I do confess that I would worry a great deal if one of my children ended up living in a trailer park for any length of time. Mary Ellen in Kansas