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A history of poor whites in America, mainly in the South.

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Subjects
poverty, class, American history, Social conditions, Poor whites, Social classes, Working class whites, History, Mountain people, Rednecks, Classism, Social classes, united states, Poor, united states, Whites, history, Working class, history, Working class, united states, United states, social conditions, United states, history, nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction=2016-07-10, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, HISTORY, Social History, United States, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Soziale Schichtung, Soziale Klasse, Unterschicht, Armut, Diskriminierung, Ausgrenzung, Eugenics, Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer
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1600s-2016s

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Table of Contents

Contents ix
List of Illustrations xi
Preface xiii
Introduction - Fables We Forget By 1
I To Begin the World Anew
1 Taking Out the Trash: Waste People in the New World 17
2 John Locke's Lubberland: The Settlements of Carolina and Georgia 43
3 Benjamin Franklin's American Breed: The Demographics of Mediocrity 64
4 Thomas Jefferson's Rubbish: A Curious Topography of Class 85
5 Andrew Jackson's Cracker Country: The Squatter as Common Man 105
II Degeneration of the American Breed
6 Pedigree and Poor White Trash: Bad Blood, Half-Breeds, and Clay-Eaters 135
7 Cowards, Poltroons, and Mudsills: Civil War as Class Warfare 154
8 Thoroughbreds and Scalawags: Bloodlines and Bastard Stock in the Age of Eugenics 174
9 Forgotten Men and Poor Folk: Downward Mobility and the Great Depression 206
10 The Cult of the Country Boy: Elvis Presley, Andy Griffith, and LBJ's Great Society 231
III The White Trash Makeover
11 Redneck Roots: Deliverance, Billy Beer, and Tammy Faye 269
12 Outing Rednecks: Slumming, Slick Willie, and Sarah Palin 291
Epilogue
America's Strange Breed: The Long Legacy of White Trash 310
Notes 323
Index 447

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Library of Congress
HN90.S6I84 2016, HN90.S6 I84 2016b, HN90.S6 I84 2016

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hardcover
Pagination
xvii, 460p
Number of pages
460
Weight
760 grams

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OL25938400M
Internet Archive
whitetrash400yea0000isen_v5s4
ISBN 13
9780670785971
LCCN
2017301116, 2016302095
OCLC/WorldCat
964501874, 925398080

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