" there’s a simpler reason that white collars hate white trash—rednecks were the ones who beat them up in high school. That’s usually the only time white-collar white liberals were forced to mingle with white trash. High school was probably the most egalitarian social experiment they were ever required to make, and they haven’t stopped running from it yet. "

― Jim Goad , The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats