Do you come from a white trash town?

No. I come from a formerly nice town that had riots in the 1960s. Then there was white flight, and now, anytime I read about my erstwhile town online, it's preceded by "Don't move to _______."

It broke my father's heart.

No. I grew up in a nice respectable upper middle class town.

No. I grew up in an nice neighborhood in Chicago. I wouldn't say there weren't problems there, though.

Sounds like a David Lynch movie. Or John Waters.

I'm from Texas so I'm from a trash state.

I'm from a white trash and black trash town, how does that work?

Yes I’m from what used to be a white working class first ring suburb of Detroit.

What aren't you telling us, R1? Your comment raises more questions than answers.

I grew up in a town that had moderate amounts of white flight in the 90s and 2000s. My parents didn’t have the wherewithal or ambition to leave so we just watched the town change. Not drastic except for a small uptick in crime and gang activity, also the schools went a bit downhill also.

I grew up in what was once a small town outside of Houston but is now probably close to 200,000 residents - the word “affluent” is often used to describe it. My high school girl’s golf team were Texas state champs five years in a row back in the 80s (no shortage of country clubs) and most of the Houston sports stars loved there (Moses Malone lived down the street from us and Frank Beard from ZZ Top lived next door to my high school boyfriend).

I think “white trash” is a tacky phrase but every city has trashy people, no matter how well-off.

R10 This sounds like Naperville, Illinois.

tacky phrase

That would be DL, that's why we come here.

Kind of? It’s not where I was born but the town I grew up in was very trashy. There’s a lot of trash with cash there now. People who make a lot in the trades but still behave like white trash.

No. I didn’t

Rednecks with money describes much of my hometown.

Yep. Uneducated and proud it of trash crowd.

Trash with cash. Oh dear. I can see the siding and overscheduled kids with strange names from here.

Yes. The only bookstore in my hometown was an Adult book store with the ultra-creative name of XXX Bookstore. It was located across the highway from a trailer park and a block away from a bowling alley and a Baptist church. Ther was also a pawn shop around the corner.

East Hampton trash

R18 Fun for the whole family. Even dad!

Yes, highest per capita bars, churches, child sexual assault, % of children in foster care. Also 97% white and stronghold of the klan in Massachusetts when I was growing up.

I live in West Virginia now. Going from Chicago to Here is kind of like a John Waters movie. LMAO, there are some real characters here. It's beautiful here, and kind of trashy, but I like the people. Everybody knows everybody and they are usually related in some way. My husband's Nephews half brother was living under a made up name. One day I was outside smoking and he came flying up the road and the cops were right on him. He led them up the hollow and ditched the truck, which belonged to his step-dad. They didn't catch him for almost two months. His made up name was Paul Ball. His real name is unreal. Lol, he's crazy and funny, and good at telling stories.

I grew up in a nice middle to upper class town. Many decades later, it's still a nice town.

My family did drive through East St. Louis on occasion.

R24 did you like it?

R10 had me searching the UIL archives trying to figure out her high school. Then I thought why am I doing this?

I grew up in a small third-tier manufacturing rust belt town, full of Italian immigrants, that used to be a thriving place before I was born. It had a busy downtown with three different mid-range department stores, tailors, beauty parlors, florists, a G.C. Murphy, and a movie theater, as well as the county courthouse and library. A lot of that was still hanging on when I was a child in the 70s, but in the mid-70s the mills shut down and the town's slow slide into white trash hellhole status accelerated. Politically it's done a complete 180 from staunch union Democrats to 70% Trump in the last election. I'm surprised my father (active in Democratic town politics for most of his life) isn't haunting the streets as an angry ghost.

Glastonbury, CT. Not really trashy.

Yes although it's becoming more of a middle class bedroom community. I felt like I was better than most of the kids I went to school with.

Me too.