“Every era in the continent's vaunted developmental story had its own taxonomy of waste people-unwanted and unsalvageable. Each era had its own means of distancing its version of white trash from the mainstream ideal.” PovertyEconomicsClass StruggleWhite Trash Book:White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America Source: White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America