And it's one that cuts both ways. When you feel the need to specify "white trash," it carries the implication that anyone who isn't white is assumed to be trashy. Why else specify?
But the pole dancer thing was too good a line to pass up...
Indeed. Chris Rock has a great bit about becoming a new father, and realizing that suddenly his whole purpose in life is to keep his baby daughter off the pole.
I don't see it that way. My sense of the word "white trash" is that I've rarely (outside of southern states) heard the word "trash" used alone.
If anything, perhaps, it implies that by being white there is no excuse for being trash. Though this is something I'd have to give some thought to...my main objection is that, like all other racial slurs, it's marginalizing.