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An Ozark Hillbilly considers the trash on the White House lawn
The pricey gladiator spectacle on the South Lawn challenges “a misconception about hillbillies and mountaineers and rednecks and rural people in general,” Jess Piper writes.
Ozark native Jess Piper , now of Missouri, took to Substack and Facebook this week to wrestle with the supercharged “white trash” moniker and see if it fit Donald Trump’s gladiator-themed birthday party.
A graduate of Ozark High who still claims the school’s hillbilly mascot as her own, Piper compared her Friday night lights memories with Sunday’s blood sport in D.C., and found the president to be the real trash here.
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