Gutters is a Southern word? .... Or is there some special meaning intended here - not just the places from which one is drug up?

Seems like, dxb:

The channels along the edge of a roof for carrying away rainwater (normally referred to in the plural) are variously known as eaves troughs or, less commonly, eaves spouts in parts of New England, the Great Lakes states, and, for the former, the West; spouting or rainspouts in eastern Pennsylvania and the Delmarva Peninsula; and gutters from Virginia southward.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=gutter

I suppose you could say that "gutter trash" and later "trailer trash" came out of the South as well, but that wouldn't be real polite.

If you've got your mind in the gutter, your mind is collecting a lot of trash just like an eaves trough, but no-one says you've got your mind in a trough.

So gutters gave us "gutter trash" and it was a short trip from there to "trailer trash".

Now, that's ironic, isn't it? I wish Aorto was around to read this. Gutters gave us trailer trash but there are no gutters on a trailer.

gutter adj. Befitting the lowest class of human life; vulgar, sordid, or unprincipled: gutter language; the gutter press.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=gutter

Gutters also gave us "gutter snipe":

Gutter snipe, a neglected boy running at large;
From LITDOTORG - http://www.indictionary.com

Before I leave this subject, I should probably even the score, regionally speaking. We owe "your mind is in the gutter" to the South, but we owe "your head is in the trough" to the North.

Of course, the trough I'm referring to is the feed trough. Politicians in the North must have had a leg up on the South in this department.