Stereotypes and generalizations are almost codependents of a society. Bigotry, biases and prejudice views are all somewhat attributed to stereotypic values. Even though these kinds of opinions may have seemed to dissipate over the years, many do not know their origins, of which according to American Studies website at the University of Virginia were prominent in America's Jacksonian Age. These stereotypes are just as universal today.

In the 1830's and 1840's Southwestern humorists rebelled against Andrew Jackson's common man: the farmer, hunter or "poor white." Longstreet and Hooper, some of the first humorists of the era, used the media as a conduit for expressing their stereotypical views. Characters Ransy Sniffle and Simon Suggs were depicted as the epitome of "white trash." They were portrayed as hunched over crude "fleshless" arrogant men, who spent their days in the field. I assume these humorists were elite white men who resented...