Equivalent words for lower class people in the USA often have a racial slur component involved so you don't see them used in the same context. I thought the wor

Equivalent words for lower class people in the USA often have a racial slur component involved so you don't see them used in the same context. I thought the word "bro" might be close but bro has a upper or middle class connotation, being derived from frat brother, rather than lower class.