Scalawags, Rednecks, Mudsills and Swamp People: 400 Years on America’s Fringe – Rural America Before rednecks, trailer trash and swamp people, there were squatters, crackers, clay-eaters and white niggers. Before that, there were the lubbers, bogtrotters, scalawags and offscourings—Britain’s “waste people” sent by London’s elite to set up shop in the colonies. All terribly regrettable…