White trash as described in " To kill a mockingbird"

"...the Ewells were terminally poor. They were human waste. She wrote: "No truant officers could keep their numerous offspring in school, no public health officer could free them from congenital defects, various worms, and diseases indigenous to their filthy surroundings." They lived behind the town dump, which they combed every day. Their run-down shack, "once a Negro cabin," looked like the "playhouse of an insane child." Their indiscriminate breeding and inbreeding defined them.


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