Merriam-Webster Word of the Year 2017

[JurisDictum]

You have to go to the south in specific areas to find white underclass -- but it is there and real. Big on that born-again religion that's very otherworldly and rhetorically performative...very authoritarian and repressive of any that don't fit in.

There is long history of exploiting poor white people in the south. If you are a poor white kid with a southern accent, there is significant baggage there that a California middle class kid does not have.