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Index
Cover
BY NANCY ISENBERG
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT
DEDICATION
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION: Fables We Forget By
Part I: TO BEGIN THE WORLD ANEW
CHAPTER ONE: Taking Out the Trash: Waste People in the New World
CHAPTER TWO: John Locke’s Lubberland: The Settlements of Carolina and Georgia
CHAPTER THREE: Benjamin Franklin’s American Breed: The Demographics of Mediocrity
CHAPTER FOUR: Thomas Jefferson’s Rubbish: A Curious Topography of Class
CHAPTER FIVE: Andrew Jackson’s Cracker Country: The Squatter as Common Man
Part II: DEGENERATION OF THE AMERICAN BREED
CHAPTER SIX: Pedigree and Poor White Trash: Bad Blood, Half-Breeds, and Clay-Eaters
CHAPTER SEVEN: Cowards, Poltroons, and Mudsills: Civil War as Class Warfare
CHAPTER EIGHT: Thoroughbreds and Scalawags: Bloodlines and Bastard Stock in the Age of Eugenics
CHAPTER NINE: Forgotten Men and Poor Folk: Downward Mobility and the Great Depression
CHAPTER TEN: The Cult of the Country Boy: Elvis Presley, Andy Griffith, and LBJ’s Great Society
Part III: THE WHITE TRASH MAKEOVER
CHAPTER ELEVEN: Redneck Roots: Deliverance, Billy Beer, and Tammy Faye
CHAPTER TWELVE: Outing Rednecks: Slumming, Slick Willie, and Sarah Palin
EPILOGUE: America’s Strange Breed: The Long Legacy of White Trash
NOTES
INDEX
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