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by Nancy Isenberg

as laborers, 26, 27, 30–31, 42, 66, 68–69, 91

  producing, 42, 66–67

  of slaves, 40–41

  tax exemptions for, 193

  Chisman, Lydia, 39

  Chute, Carolyn, 291–95, 297

  Civil Rights Act of 1866, 182–83

  Civil War, xv, 7, 135, 137, 154–73, 178, 186, 198, 312

  class, xiv–xvii, 1–14, 71–73, 98–99, 136–37, 156–57, 216, 310, 312–15, 317–20

  Civil War and, 154–73

  Franklin on, 65–66, 69–71, 77, 85, 87–88, 310

  Jefferson on, 85–89, 91, 92, 94, 96–98, 101–3, 310

  middle, 3, 4, 69, 74, 271, 275, 290, 315

  Paine on, 78–80, 82–84

  race and, see race(s), class and

  sexual behavior and, see sexual behavior

  social mobility and, xv, xvii, 1, 4, 11, 14, 32, 42, 70, 75, 87, 107, 111, 136, 271, 317, 319

  in Virginia, 91, 98, 99, 101–3

  clay-eaters, 135, 136, 151–52, 198, 242, 269

  Clay, Henry, 113, 122, 126, 128, 129, 140, 261

  Clement, Frank, 259–61, 282

  Clinton, Bill, xvi, 296–306, 300

  Clinton, Roger, 297

  Clinton, Virginia, 296, 300–301, 306

  Coles, Edward, 126

  Colleton, John, 58–59

  Colonial Dames, 6

  Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010 (Murray), 3, 4

  Common Sense (Paine), 77–82, 84

  Confederacy, xv, 143, 154–73, 176, 183, 310, 312, 313

  Congress, 105–6, 117–19, 142, 147, 182, 221

  Constitution, 5, 105, 107, 219

  amendments to, 183, 186

  Constitutional Convention, 153

  Continental Army, 96, 97

  Continental Congress, 87

  convicts, 13, 21, 23–24, 72, 82, 84, 151, 207

  Cooper, James Fenimore, 106, 131

  Corbin, John, 216

  cotton, 145–46, 156, 165–66

  Counts, Will, 247

  Couric, Katie, 304

  Couts, Cave Johnson, 143

  Cracker Culture (McWhiney), 308

  “Cracker Dictionary,” 105, 116

  Cracker Joe, 186–87

  crackers, 107, 109–11, 113–15, 117, 118, 121–26, 121, 128, 129, 131, 135, 143, 186–87, 291, 309

  Crackers (Blount), 269, 282

  Crèvecoeur, J. Hector St. John de, 94–95, 113

  Crockett, Davy, xvi, 116–19, 121, 121, 123, 125, 126, 128, 130, 235, 236, 245

  Crowther, Bosley, 265

  Culpeper’s Rebellion, 50–51

  Cuomo, Mario, 315, 316

  Dana, James G., 127

  Daniels, Jonathan, 229–30, 255

  Dare, Virginia, 9

  Dartmouth, Lord, 109

  Darwinism, 174–76, 181, 191, 314, 315

  dating services, 316

  Davenport, Charles, 181, 193, 194, 196, 200

  David Copperfield (Dickens), 278

  Davidson, Donald, 228

  Davis, Jeff (Arkansas governor), 187, 190, 252

  Davis, Jefferson (Confederate president), xvi, 154–59, 162, 164–69, 168, 172–73, 190

  Davis, Jimmy, 257

  Davis, Varina, 167

  Davy Crockett’s Almanack of 1837, 118, 121, 121, 236

  De Bow, James, 162

  Declaration of Independence, 5, 43, 87, 111, 153

  Dee, John, 20

  Deen, Paula, xiv

  De Forest, John W., 181

  Deliverance, 270, 277, 279–81, 285, 321

  democracy, 310–11, 316

  Democratic Party, 128, 171, 175, 176, 182–85, 187, 188, 259–60, 298, 299, 315

  Depression, see Great Depression

  Description of England (Harrison), 22

  Dialogue of the Backwoodsman and the Dandy (Doddridge), 125

  Dickens, Charles, 278, 296

  Dickenson, Jane, 26–27, 33

  Dickey, James, xvi, 270, 277, 279–80, 282

  Dickinson, Charles, 123

  “Discourse of Western Planting” (Hakluyt), 18, 19, 22

  Discovery of America, The (van der Straet), 34–35

  Dismal Swamp, 48–49, 52, 92, 317

  Disney, 9

  Doddridge, Joseph, 125

  Donne, John, 22, 24–25

  Dowd, Maureen, 303, 304

  Down in Tennessee (Gilmore), 179–80, 194

  Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp (Stowe), 137, 148–49, 151, 187

  Dred Scott, 153, 201

  Du Bois, W. E. B., xvi, 174–75, 188, 314, 315

  Duck Dynasty, xvi, 307, 307

  Duke, David, 292

  Dukes of Hazzard, The, xiv, 281

  Dumont, Reverend, 61

  Dyer, Mary, 32

  Ebert, Roger, 290

  Ebsen, Buddy, 234, 235

  Eckford, Elizabeth, 247

  education, 90–91, 161, 175, 190, 198, 215

  eHarmony, 316

  Eisenhower, Dwight D., 250–52

  Elizabeth I, Queen, 18

  Empire State Building, 208–9

  employment, 315, 319

  Encyclopédie Méthodique, 97

  England, 1, 78, 138, 155, 187–88, 310, 312, 315

  poor in, 21–22, 29, 45

  royalty in, 78–83

  in Seven Years’ War, 69, 109

  vagrants in, 105–7, 109, 116

  Estabrook, Arthur, 200, 201

  ethnic identity, 274–76, 309

  Eugenia, 203

  eugenics, xv, 141, 174–205, 196, 225, 310, 314, 316, 318

  Evans, Walker, 227, 263, 312

  Face in the Crowd, A, 252–53, 286

  Falwell, Jerry, 286

  family, 3–4, 31, 319

  Farmer’s Daughter, The, 4

  farming, farmers, 90, 148, 150, 165, 211–16, 222, 263

  Jefferson’s views on, 86–88, 90, 94, 95, 107, 148, 218

  Resettlement Administration and, 211, 217–21, 223

  tenant, 212, 213–15, 217, 218, 221–24, 312

  Farm Security Administration (FSA), 207, 211, 218, 221, 223, 224, 234

  Faubus, Orval, 247, 249–52, 250

  Faulkner, William, 264, 292, 294

  Fetchit, Stepin, 226

  Fine, Benjamin, 249

  Florida, 48, 56, 113, 115, 121–22, 124, 128, 131, 138

  Folsom, “Big Jim,” 259, 261, 282

  Ford, John, 213, 217

  “Forgotten Man, The” (Markham), 206

  Fowler, Orson Squire, 139

  Franklin, Benjamin, xvi, 62, 64–77, 80, 82, 85, 93, 106, 217, 313, 318

  autobiography of, 72, 75

  breeding as viewed by, 68, 69

  class as viewed by, 65–66, 69–77, 85, 87–88, 310

  emigration model of, 66, 74

  “happy mediocrity” idea of, 65, 69–70, 75, 85

  militia plan of, 74, 75

  poor as viewed by, 73–74, 76

  Franklin, William, 68

  Franklin, William Temple, 68

  Franklin (state), 117

  Fraternity of Vagabonds, The (Awdeley), 23

  Freedmen’s Bureau, 178–79, 182, 183, 228

  Free Soil Party, 136, 146–48

  Frémont, John C., 146, 147, 156

  French, Virginia, 166–67

  Frobisher, Martin, 17

  Frost, William Goodell, 187, 258

  Fulbright, J. William, 265, 297

  Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina (Locke), 43–46

  Gadsden Purchase, 138

  Galbraith, John Kenneth,
265

  Gallatin, Albert, 120

  Galton, Francis, 175, 314

  Garfield, James, 169

  Gast, John, 6

  Generall Historie of Virginia (Smith), 26, 27

  Georgia, 47–48, 56–63, 68–69, 156, 163, 165

  Gergen, David, 300

  GI Bill, 240

  Gilbert, Humphrey, 17

  Gilmore, James R., 179–80, 194

  Gingrich, Newt, 292, 319–20

  Goddard, Henry, 196–98

  gold rush, 143–45

  Goldsmith, Oliver, 80

  Goldwater, Barry, 264, 265

  Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., 233

  Good Genes, 316

  Good Master Well Served, A (Mather), 31

  Gore, Al, 299, 316

  Gorham, Nathaniel, 107–8

  Graduate, The, 271

  Graham, Katharine, 242

  Grand Ole Opry, 257

  Grant, Ulysses S., 159, 192

  Grapes of Wrath, The (Steinbeck), 213, 217, 229, 259

  Great Depression, 206–30, 232, 233, 262, 307, 320

  Great Society, xv, 232, 236, 262–63

  Green Acres, 4, 306

  Greenberg, Paul, 298

  Gregg, William, 149, 152

  Griffith, Andy, 233–34, 236, 252–53, 258, 261, 286

  Grimes, David, 298

  Grizzard, Lewis, 291

  Guthridge, Armis, 249

  Guthrie, Woody, 213

  Hahn, Jessica, 287

  Hakluyt, Richard, the elder, 17, 22, 79

  Hakluyt, Richard, the younger, 17–25, 28, 29, 34, 36, 41–42, 64, 66, 79, 92, 238, 318

  Haley, Alex, 272–73, 283, 309

  Halleck, Henry W., 169–70

  Hamill, Pete, 275

  Hamilton, Alexander, 71

  Hamilton, Charles, 178

  Hammond, Charles, 127

  Hammond, James Henry, 152, 157–60

  Hamor, Ralph, 36

  Hampton, Wade, 185, 189

  Hardin, Benjamin, 147

  Harper, William, 161

  Harrington, Michael, 265–66

  Harrison, William Henry, 129, 131

  Hart, Jeffrey, 292

  Harvey, Paul, 235

  Hays, Charlotte, 308–9, 318

  Hee Haw, 257

  Helper, Hinton Rowan, 137, 144–46, 148, 160, 161

  Hemings, Sally, 100, 301

  Henry, Patrick, 102

  Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, xvi, 287, 307–8

  Hildreth, Daniel, 108

  hillbillies, 187, 189, 219, 220, 231, 249, 256–60

  Hillerman, John, 291

  Hilton, Paris, 306, 316

  Hine, Lewis, 208–9

  History of Earth and Animated Nature, A (Goldsmith), 80

  “History of the Dividing Line” (Byrd), 43

  History of the United States (Bancroft), 6

  Hitler, Adolf, 216

  Hitt, Jack, 301

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 174, 201

  homesteads, 147, 214–15, 217

  Honeymooners, The, 4

  hookworm, 198, 199

  Hoosiers, 115–16

  Hoover, Herbert, 209, 223

  Hoovervilles, 209–10, 307

  Hope, Bob, 234

  Hopper, Hedda, 258

  Hottentots, 109

  housing, xvii, 222–23, 236, 238–47, 243, 244, 317

  Houston, Sam, 140–41

  Howe, Irving, 276

  Humphrey, Hal, 236

  Hundley, Daniel, 135, 137, 150–51, 153, 181, 314

  Hunter, David, 167

  Huntsman, Jon, 318

  Hutchinson, Anne, 32

  Hyde, Edward, 51

  Hyde Amendment, 284

  I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, 206–9

  idleness, 22, 57, 58, 63, 64, 66, 68, 73–74, 76–77, 82–84, 91, 107, 110

  I’ll Take My Stand, 228

  Impending Crisis of the South, The (Helper), 137, 144, 146, 161

  Indians, 3, 10, 11, 18–20, 22, 23, 25–27, 30, 35–38, 81, 82, 84, 92–93, 108–10, 114, 140–41, 144, 146, 191

  Cherokee, 113, 117–19

  Digger, 144–45

  intermarriage with colonists, 55, 100

  Jackson and, 113, 120–24

  land and, 105, 117–19, 121, 317

  Narragansett, 33

  Seminole, 121, 122, 124, 128

  Tuscarora, 50, 51

  Wampanoag, 8

  white, 76

  infant mortality, 70–71

  intelligence testing, 198, 200, 202

  Intermarriage (Walker), 139

  Ivins, Molly, 298

  Jackson, Andrew, 112–13, 116, 119–31, 123, 136, 255, 298, 304, 306, 311, 313

  in Battle of New Orleans, 120, 121

  coffin handbills and, 123–25

  Crockett and, 118, 119

  Florida and, 113, 121–22, 138

  funeral of, 135

  Indians and, 113, 120–24

  personality and violence of, 113, 120, 123–24

  Seminole War and, 121, 122, 124

  Jackson, Jesse, Jr., 316

  Jackson, Rachel, 113, 126–27

  James, William, 208–9

  James I, King, 23

  Jamestown, 3, 8–10, 24–29, 34, 37, 91, 144, 151, 309

  Jefferson, Margo, 291

  Jefferson, Thomas, xvi, 43, 62, 85–104, 106, 112, 114–15, 126, 136, 139, 141, 140, 150, 152, 154, 171, 177, 200, 214, 217, 220, 230, 270, 297, 301, 314, 316, 318, 319

  breeding as viewed by, 101–2, 175

  class as viewed by, 85–89, 91, 92, 94, 96–98, 101–3, 310

  education as viewed by, 90–91

  farming as viewed by, 86–88, 90, 94, 95, 107, 148, 218

  Hemings and, 100, 301

  Jackson and, 120

  Northwest Territory and, 94–96, 147, 153

  “rubbish” designation of, 91, 102, 150

  slavery and, 86, 88, 99–100, 103, 153

  Jenkins, Johnny, 247

  Johnson, Andrew, xvi, 170–71, 176–77, 182–83, 189, 232

  Johnson, Gabriel, 55

  Johnson, Gerald W., 223–24

  Johnson, Junior, 280–81

  Johnson, Lady Bird, 262–63, 266

  Johnson, Lynda Bird, 231

  Johnson, Lyndon Baines, xvi, 231–33, 235, 257, 260–66, 262, 278, 298, 312, 315

  Great Society of, xv, 232, 236, 262–63

  Johnston, Levi, 303

  Jong, Erica, 303

  Jordan, Harvey Ernest, 200

  Journey Through Chaos (Meyer), 241–42

  Jukes, The, 181

  Kazan, Elia, 252–53

  Kefauver, Estes, 260, 261, 282

  Keith, Cornelius, 53

  Kennedy, Edward, 278

  Kennedy, Jacqueline, 238

  Kennedy, John F., 232, 238, 261, 262, 296, 297, 302, 310

  Kentucky, 90, 111, 125, 147

  Kentucky Moonshine, 256–57, 307, 307

  Kilpatrick, Hugh Judson, 171

  King, Martin Luther, Jr., 302

  King Philip’s War, 33

  Klein, Joe, 302–3

  Knights of the White Camelia, 183

  Kristofferson, Kris, 107

  Kromer, Tom, 210

  Ku Klux Klan, xiv, 228, 278, 292

  Lamar, Mirabeau Buonaparte, 141

  land, xvii, 5, 12, 14, 19, 28, 34, 37, 40, 41, 46, 63, 69–70, 107, 112, 162, 317, 319, 320

  freehold system and, 89, 90, 130

  frontier, 105–7, 111, 212

  headright system and, 26

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bsp; homesteads and, 147, 214–15, 217

  Indians and, 105, 117–19, 121, 317

  and instinct to migrate, 66

  land lopers and, 38

  in New England, 29

  preemption and, 128f

  primogeniture and entail, 89–90

  squatters and, see squatters

  tail-male provision and, 61

  in Virginia, 89–90

  voting rights and, 89, 130–31

  wasteland, 19–20, 22–23, 34, 47, 211

  Landing of the Fathers (Sargent), 6

  Land of Gold (Helper), 144, 146, 160

  Lange, Dorothea, 212–13, 312

  Laughlin, Harry H., 194

  Lawrence, William, 140

  Lawson, John, 36, 55

  Lea, Thomas, 273

  Lee, Harper, xiii, 254

  Lee, Robert E., 164

  Leet-men, 45–47

  Lepore, Jill, 316

  Lerner, Gerda, xvii

  Letter on the Annexation of Texas (Walker), 142–43

  Letters from an American Farmer (Crèvecoeur), 94–95

  Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (Agee), 227–28

  Levittown, 238–40

  Lewinsky, Monica, 301

  Lexington, Ky., 111

  Liberia, 131

  Life, 210, 211, 250, 250, 251

  Li’l Abner, 256, 277

  Lincecum, Gideon, 141

  Lincoln, Abraham, xv, 146, 150, 158, 160–62, 164, 167–69, 168, 171, 173, 177, 178, 192, 232, 255, 306

  Lindsay, John, 246

  Linnaeus (Carl von Linné), 80–81

  Little Rock, Ark., xiv, 237, 247–52

  Locke, John, 43–47, 50, 56, 68

  Log Cabin Bill, 128

  Long, Huey, 219, 230, 252, 257

  Long, Long Trailer, The, 244

  Loud family, 271–72, 290

  Louisiana Purchase, 85

  Lubberland, 43, 53–55, 54, 63, 73, 106, 111

  MacDougall, John, xvii

  Madison, James, 107, 126, 219, 220

  Malcolm X, 264

  Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, The, 255

  Markham, Edwin, 206

  marriage, 36–37, 139, 193, 316

  eugenics and, 193–96, 136

  of Indians and colonists, 55, 100

  interracial, 55, 100, 183–84, 201

  Marshall, John, 99

  Massachusetts, 5, 29, 31, 32, 35, 45, 97, 101, 108

  Massasoit, 8

  Mather, Cotton, 31, 34

  Mather, Increase, 34

  Maxwell, Bill, 300–301

  Maxwell, Ruth, 256

  Mayflower, 6, 7, 10, 12, 29

  McCain, John, 303–4, 306

  McDougall, William, 203

  McGovern, George, 265

  McKinley, William, 188, 311

  McWhiney, Grady, 308

  Medicare, 284

  Memoir on Slavery (Harper), 161

  Men at Work (Hine), 208–9

  Mencken, H. L., 220

 

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