[UnwashedPeasant]

"...Just to set the record straight, there have been white people who picked cotton as well. They were often referred to as white trash..."

I have never before heard farmers referred to collectively as white trash. I don't think that phrase means what you think it means.

[Robert DeLong]

Farmers were never considered white trash. The poor white neither owned land to farm of a house that they owned. Look up poor white in google.