Trailer trash (or trailer park trash) is a derogatory North American English term for a small percentage of poor people living in a trailer or a mobile home. It is particularly used to denigrate white people living in such circumstances and can be considered to fall within the category of racial slurs. The term has increasingly replaced “white trash” in public and television usage as the latter expression became more politically incorrect.
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Pejorative meaning
The term is mostly used as a pejorative to imply poor hygiene, low-level language skills, limited education, slovenly or sexual style of dress, sexual flirtation and promiscuity, and aggressive social behavior associated with people who live in trailers.
Music
Billy Ray Cyrus' song "Burn Down the Trailer Park" and Toby Keith's song "Trailerhood" and contain humorous lyrics about living in a trailer park.
Colt Ford's song "No Trash in My Trailer" (2009) tells of a redneck-type male who throws his girlfriend out of his mobile home, the message being "there ain't no trash in my trailer, since the day I threw you outta here."
The song "Trailer Trash" appears on Modest Mouse's album The Lonesome Crowded West (1997).
Eminem refers to himself as "Dale Earnhardt of the trailer park, the White Trash God" in his song "Rap God" from the album The Marshall Mathers LP 2 (2013).
Television
Most of the residents of the Pimmett Hills Trailer Park on My Name Is Earl fit this stereotype to some degree or another.
The Canadian television series Trailer Park Boys, done in mockumentary style, documents the misadventures of the residents of the Sunnyvale Trailer Park.