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A history of poor whites in America, mainly in the South.
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White trash : the 400-year untold history of class in America
2016, Viking
hardcover
in English
0670785970 9780670785971
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Table of Contents
Contents
Page ix
List of Illustrations
Page xi
Preface
Page xiii
Introduction - Fables We Forget By
Page 1
I.
To Begin the World Anew
1.
Taking Out the Trash: Waste People in the New World
Page 17
2.
John Locke's Lubberland: The Settlements of Carolina and Georgia
Page 43
3.
Benjamin Franklin's American Breed: The Demographics of Mediocrity
Page 64
4.
Thomas Jefferson's Rubbish: A Curious Topography of Class
Page 85
5.
Andrew Jackson's Cracker Country: The Squatter as Common Man
Page 105
II.
Degeneration of the American Breed
6.
Pedigree and Poor White Trash: Bad Blood, Half-Breeds, and Clay-Eaters
Page 135
7.
Cowards, Poltroons, and Mudsills: Civil War as Class Warfare
Page 154
8.
Thoroughbreds and Scalawags: Bloodlines and Bastard Stock in the Age of Eugenics
Page 174
9.
Forgotten Men and Poor Folk: Downward Mobility and the Great Depression
Page 206
10.
The Cult of the Country Boy: Elvis Presley, Andy Griffith, and LBJ's Great Society
Page 231
III.
The White Trash Makeover
11.
Redneck Roots: Deliverance, Billy Beer, and Tammy Faye
Page 269
12.
Outing Rednecks: Slumming, Slick Willie, and Sarah Palin
Page 291
Epilogue
America's Strange Breed: The Long Legacy of White Trash
Page 310
Notes
Page 323
Index
Page 447
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