Editing White trash (section)

===Eugenics===
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Also around 1890, the [[American eugenics movement]] turned its attention to poor white trash. They were stigmatized as being feeble-minded and promiscuous, having incestuous and inter-racial sex, and abandoning or mistreating their children. Eugenicists campaigned successfully for laws that would allow poor rural whites to be involuntarily sterilized by the state, in order to "cleanse" society of faulty genetic heritages.<ref name="Drinkard 2014"/> In 1907, [[Indiana]] passed the first eugenics-based [[compulsory sterilization]] law in the world. Thirty U.S. states would soon follow their lead.<ref>Lombardo, Paul A. ed. (2011) ''A Century of Eugenics in America: From the Indiana Experiment to the Human Genome Era''. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. {{isbn|9780253222695}}. [https://books.google.com/books?id=FAB-6RzKAQIC&pg=PR9 p. ix]</ref><ref>Indiana Supreme Court Legal History Lecture Series, "Three Generations of Imbeciles are Enough:"Reflections on 100 Years of Eugenics in Indiana, at [http://www.in.gov/judiciary/citc/special/eugenics/index.html In.gov] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090813203713/http://www.in.gov/judiciary/citc/special/eugenics/index.html|date=August 13, 2009}}</ref> Although the law was overturned by the [[Indiana Supreme Court]] in 1921,<ref>[http://www.bioethics.iupui.edu/Eugenics/SMith%20vs%20Williams.pdf ''Williams v. Smith'', 131 NE 2 (Ind.), 1921, text at] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081001183035/http://www.bioethics.iupui.edu/Eugenics/SMith%20vs%20Williams.pdf|date=October 1, 2008}}</ref> in the 1927 case ''[[Buck v. Bell]]'', the [[Supreme Court of the United States]] upheld the constitutionality of the [[Virginia Sterilization Act of 1924]], allowing for the compulsory sterilization of patients of state mental institutions.<ref>Larson, Edward J. (1996) ''Sex, Race, and Science: Eugenics in the Deep South''. pp.194-195. Baltimore; Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-8018-5511-5}}; citing ''[[Buck v. Bell]]'' 274 U.S. 200, 205 (1927)</ref>