White Trash Hell

White Trash Hell is an EP by Everclear, released on March 24, 1997. The disc is largely a collection of demos recorded with drummer Scott Cuthbert in 1994 in preparation for Sparkle and Fade. (The lone exception is the acoustic version of "Fire Maple Song", which features Greg Eklund on drums.) The band turned over the recordings to their UK label, Fire Records, expecting them to be released sometime in 1995. However, the label stalled on releasing the EP, and it remained unissued until 1997.

The disc was available exclusively as a UK import until 2000, when it was issued in the US by label Atomic Pop. However, Atomic Pop went bankrupt within a few months, pushing its version out of print. Fire eventually re-issued the disc (without the band's involvement or permission) in 2002 with a slipcover and slightly modified artwork.

The original artwork was designed by Steve Birch, who Art Alexakis met during the Colorfinger days while Steve was in Portland band Sprinkler. Birch later became a touring guitarist for Everclear during the tours in support of So Much for the Afterglow.

White trash

White trash is a derogatory American English racial slur referring to poor white people, especially in the rural South of the United States, suggesting lower social class and degraded standards of living. The term suggests outcasts from respectable society living on the fringes of the social order, who are seen as dangerous because they may be criminal, unpredictable, and without respect for authority whether it be political, legal, or moral. The term is usually a racial slur, but may also be used self-referentially by working-class whites to jokingly describe their origins or lifestyle.

White trash vis-a-vis cracker, hillbilly, Okie, and redneck

In common usage, "White trash" overlaps in meaning with "cracker" (regarding Georgia and Florida), "hillbilly" (regarding Appalachia), "Okie" (regarding Oklahoma origins), and "redneck". The main difference is that "redneck," "cracker", "Okie", and "hillbilly" emphasize that a person is poor and uneducated and comes from the backwoods with little awareness of the modern world, while "White trash" emphasizes the person's moral failings.

White trash (disambiguation)

White trash is an American pejorative term for socially disadvantaged Caucasian people. It may also refer to:

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White Trash (novel)

White Trash is the fifth novel written by English author John King, published in 2002. Set in a new town, it records the world as seen through the eyes of a hard-working ward nurse, Ruby James, and a sinister, money-obsessed administrator, Jonathan Jeffries, who works at her hospital.

Their paths rarely cross, but the calculating, hard-hearted outlook of Jeffries begins to have terrible ramifications, and Ruby becomes entangled in his web when she begins to have suspicions about the consequences of his actions.

Working class Ruby manages to keep her dignity, sense of humour and sanity despite a life of daily struggle that includes wrestling with the pain of having a mother with Alzheimers and living on a salary that barely helps her get by. Her unfailingly positive and inclusive take on life is a mirror image of the vindictive, exclusive viewpoint of the handsomely-paid Jeffries, who spends his hours in the glow of a computer screen and prefers the company of statistics to human beings.