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poor White

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poor White
Often offensive
a. a poverty-stricken and underprivileged White person, esp in the southern US and South Africa
b. (as modifier): poor White trash


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I used also to carry bread with me, enough of which was always in the house, and to which I was always welcome; for I was much better off in this regard than many of the poor white chil- dren in our neighborhood.
It made my old companion clench his fists to see those poor white women marching past to their horrid fates, and, though I shared his sentiments, I was as powerless to alter their destinies as he.
There she was, before me; built up, as it were, in a marble cell, impervious to any ray of light, or particle of sound; with her poor white hand peeping through a chink in the wall, beckoning to some good man for help, that an Immortal soul might be awakened.
 
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