Quote Originally Posted by tixe View Post

And I'm from rural West Virginia (Lincoln County, even), so I'm not exactly going to be repelled because of the so-called white trash element (and no, I don't care for the label either--I could tell some stories of real discrimination beacuse of these assumptions, even though it's nothing that even approaches the extremes of racial discrimination).
I live in Wayne County, so I can identify with your post. The discrimination and stereotyping faced by so-called "white trash" and by West Virginians in general doesn't come close to that faced by certain racial minorities, such as African-Americans, or other groups perhaps.........but it drives me up the wall all the same. Virgina's new Senator, James Webb, recently touched on the subject in his book on the Scots-Irish, "Born Fighting."