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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