Isenberg, Nancy <br/><br/>
White Trash :  The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America 
/ Nancy Isenberg 
 - New York  : Viking  , 2016 
 - 460 p.  : illus.  ; 25 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Fables we forget by -- To begin the world anew. Taking out the trash : waste people in the New World ; John Locke's Lubberland : the settlements of Carolina and Georgia ; Benjamin Franklin's American breed : the demographics of mediocrity ; Thomas Jefferson's rubbish : a curious topography of class ; Andrew Jackson's cracker country : the squatter as common man -- Degeneration of the American Breed. Pedigree and poor white trash : bad blood, half-breeds and clay-eaters ; Cowards, Poltroons, and mudsills : civil war as class warfare ; Thoroughbreds and scalawags : bloodlines and bastard stock in the age of eugenics ; Forgotten men and poor folk : downward mobility and the Great Depression ; The cult of the country boy : Elvis Presley, Andy Griffith, and LBJ's Great Society -- The white trash makeover. Redneck roots : Deliverance, Billy Beer, and Tammy Faye ; Outing Rednecks : slumming, Slick Willie, and Sarah Palin -- America's strange breed : the long legacy of white trash. 
<br/><br/> A history of the class system in America from the colonial era to the present illuminates the crucial legacy of the underprivileged white demographic, citing the pivotal contributions of lower-class white workers in wartime, social policy, and the rise of the Republican Party. 
<br/><br/><br/>English. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780670785971 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Social classes---History---United States<br/>Poor whites---Social conditions---United States<br/>Working class whites---Social conditions---United States
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HN90.S6  / I84 2016 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>305.5 ISE