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Originally Posted by Roger Slater
I live in Suffolk County, Julie, and the homes do tend to have cesspools, but I have never heard anyone call them shitholes. I associate "shithole" with horrible dwellings, not cesspools.
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Yeah, I haven't found any solid...oh, unfortunate word choice in this context...evidence to support my dad's usage for the cesspool itself, rather than for the outhouse above it (or for other buildings being disparagingly compared to such an unsavory structure). So I stand corrected. Thanks, Rogerbob.
Further reading:
Stack Exchange English Language & Usage
The Baltimore Sun's discussion of a governor's use of the term in 1991