[Ads-l] Antedating of "Trailer Trash"

[Shapiro, Fred]

trailer trash (OED 1943)

1937 _Palmer_ (Nebr.) _Journal_ 15 Apr. 1 / 2 (Newspapers.com)  There is just as much difference in the people who travel in trailers, as in the people who live in houses, and ... to class all of them as "tin can tourists" or "just trailer trash" is all wrong.

Fred Shapiro


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