Merchant of Venice, The (Shakespeare), 27
Mexico, 141–43, 147, 153, 182, 314
Meyer, Agnes, 241–42, 312
Michener, James A., 273–74
Mickler, Ernest Matthew, 276
Middletown, 211
migrant workers, 213
migration, 66, 74, 213–14
to frontier, 105–7, 111
Miller, Thomas, 50–51
Milton, John, 163
Mind of the South, The (Cash), 225–26
Missouri, 169–70
Mitchell, Broadus, 224
“Model of Christian Charity, A” (Winthrop), 30
Monck, George, 43–44
mongrels, 182, 184, 186, 201, 314
Mongrel Virginians (Estabrook), 200–201
Monroe, James, 122
Montaigne, Michel de, 18
Moore, Francis, 57
Moraley, William, 70
More, Thomas, 25
morons, 196–98, 201, 205
Morrison, Toni, 302
Morton, Thomas, 35–36, 92
Mountain Boys, The, 256
Mountain Justice, 256
Moyers, Bill, 260
mudsills, 157–60, 162, 167, 168, 168, 169, 172, 182, 269
mulattoes, 140, 142, 183
Mumford, Lewis, 240
Murray, Charles, 3, 4
Napoleon I, Emperor, 98
NASCAR, 276, 280, 281, 292
National Negro Congress, 174
New Deal, xv, 206, 214, 216, 218, 220, 223, 232, 262, 275, 285, 312
New England, 5–6, 10, 14, 19, 29, 30, 35–36, 49
New English Canaan, or New Canaan, containing an abstract of New England (Morton), 35–36, 92
Newhouse, Edward, 210
Newsweek, 272, 294
New Voyage to Carolina, A (Lawson), 36, 55
New York, 275
New Yorker, 304, 305, 316
New York Herald, 176
New York Sun, 242
New York Times, 178, 179, 218, 245, 249, 251, 254, 265, 266, 278, 283, 303
New York Times Magazine, 271, 278
Nixon, Pat, 238
Nixon, Richard, 231, 237–38, 245, 269, 275, 282, 292, 312
Noonan, Peggy, 300
North Carolina, 43, 46–52, 55, 56, 110, 113, 117
Northwest Territory, 62, 94–96, 106, 111–12, 147, 153
Notes on the State of Virginia (Jefferson), 85, 90–92, 94, 96, 99, 101, 154
Nott, Josiah, 140, 143
Novak, Michael, 275
Obama, Barack, xiii, 302, 304, 312
“Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind” (Franklin), 66–68, 74
Occupy Wall Street, 3
O’Daniel, Wilbert Lee “Pappy,” 257
Odum, Howard, 223–30, 232, 235, 262
Oglethorpe, James Edward, 47, 56–63, 69, 90, 94, 213, 319
Olmsted, Frederick Law, 225
On the Right, Lawful, and Holy Use of Apparel (Perkins), 32
Order of the First Families of Virginia, 11
Other America, The (Harrington), 265–66
Overton, John, 126
Oxford, Vernon, 276
Packard, Vance, 240, 260
Paine, Thomas, 77–84, 85, 106, 318
Palin, Bristol, 303, 305
Palin, Sarah, xvi, 303–6, 305
Palin, Trig, 305
Panic of 1819, 112
Panic of 1857, 150
Parker, Fess, 235, 245
Parker, Kathleen, 302
Parker, Sammie Dean, 249
Parton, Dolly, xvi, 276, 277, 288–89, 288, 304
Patterson, Elizabeth, 98
Paul, Rand, 316
Pearl, Minnie, 257
Peck, Gregory, 255
pellagra, 198
Penderlea Homesteads, 221–22, 222
Penn, William, 12, 71
Pennsylvania, 71, 72, 74, 77, 79, 83, 85, 108–9, 111, 142–43, 240
Philadelphia, 12, 64, 70–74, 77, 80, 82, 126
Pennsylvania Gazette, 64, 75
Pennsylvania Hospital, 64, 73
Pennsylvania Magazine; or American Monthly Museum, 77
Percy, LeRoy, 189
Percy, William, 189–90
Perkins, William, 32
Petticoat Junction, 4
Petty, William, 318–19
Philadelphia, Pa., 12, 64, 70–74, 77, 80, 82, 126
Pierce, Franklin, 138
pigeons, 66, 70
Pilgrim Monument, 6–7
Pilgrims, 3, 5–8, 10–12
piracy, 23, 49
Pittsburgh, Pa., 109
“Plain Truth” (Franklin), 74
Planters Plea, The (White), 17
Plymouth Rock, 7, 12
Pocahontas, 8–11, 25, 34, 39
Polk, James K., 137–38, 143
poor, poverty, xv, xvi, 1, 14, 20–24, 65, 70, 82, 146, 225–27, 275–76, 312, 319–21
children, 21, 24, 91
in colonial America, 55–56
in England, 21–22, 29, 45
Franklin on, 73–74, 76
Great Depression and, 206–30
Johnson and, 262–64, 262
rural, xv, xvi, 45, 53, 55, 63, 107
in South Carolina, 47, 62
Poor Richard’s Almanack (Franklin), 64
Poor White (Anderson), 203–4
Poor Whites of the South, The (Weston), 136, 148
Poor White Trash, 253–54
Popenoe, Paul, 316
Powhatan, 8
Preface to Peasantry (Raper), 215
Presley, Elvis, xvi, 231, 235, 237, 239, 249, 252, 254, 255, 258–60, 264, 265, 276, 299–302
Priddy, Albert, 200
Priestley, Joseph, 81
Primary Colors (Klein), 302–3
Principall Navigations (Hakluyt), 17–18
Principles of Economics (Taussig), 195
prisons, 20–21
prostitutes, 197, 200, 246
Providence Canyon, 229
PTL, 286–87, 289
Puritans, 6, 14, 29–35, 316
Pyle, Denver, 281
Quakers, 12, 32, 71–72, 74, 81
Quayle, Dan, 297
race(s), 140, 216
class and, xvi, 2, 30, 47, 56–58, 60, 68, 95, 157–59, 178–82, 184, 207–8, 226, 230–31, 249–52, 264, 273, 302, 308–9, 312–13
Darwinism and, 174–75
Linnaeus and, 80–81
mixing of, 100, 141–42, 182–84, 200
white trash as, 135–37
Racial Integrity Act, 201
Raleigh, Walter, 17, 18, 24, 34, 36
Randolph, Cornelia, 114–15
Raper, Arthur, 215, 223, 224
Rayburn, Sam, 235
Reagan, Nancy, 285
Reagan, Ronald, 285–87, 292, 297, 299, 300, 302, 310, 311, 314–15
Reconstruction, xv, 175–78, 180, 186, 188, 197, 313
Redden, Billy, 321
rednecks, xvi, 187–89, 249, 251, 252, 255, 256, 264, 276–90, 291–92, 294, 302, 309
Reid, Ira de A., 226
Reid, Whitelaw, 179–81
Remington, Frederic, 191–92
Rencher, Guy, 187
reproduction, 62–63, 66–68, 101–2, 318
see also breeds, breeding
Republican Court, 98
Republican Party, xv, 136, 146–48, 158, 161, 168, 169, 171, 175, 176, 180, 182–85, 188, 219, 277, 300, 318
Resettlement Administration (RA), 211, 217–21, 223
Reston, James, 266
Reynolds, Burt,
281
Rich, Frank, 303
Richmond, Va., 166–67
Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnics, The (Novak), 275
Rittenhouse, David, 93
Roanoke Colony, 8, 9, 12, 24
Robb, John, 129–31, 130
Robertson, Pat, 286
Rogers, Will, 233
Roiphe, Anne, 271–72
Rolfe, John, 9, 25
Roman Empire, 27, 40, 65, 66
Romney, Mitt, 311, 318
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 221, 229, 262
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 206–7, 212, 216, 217, 219, 229, 232, 233, 257, 263, 275, 311
Roosevelt, Theodore, xvi, 91, 188–93, 225, 311, 319
Roots (Haley), 272–73, 309
Rothstein, Arthur, 211–12, 212
Rowlandson, Mary, 33
rubbish, 91, 97, 102, 109, 111, 114, 150, 269
Ruffin, Edmund, 163
Rush, Benjamin, 111, 142–43
Russell, Johnny, 276
sailors, 20, 23, 59
St. Augustine, 57
Saleeby, C. W., 203
Salem Gazette, 105
Sanders, Carl, 279
sandhillers, 135, 152, 165
Sargent, Henry, 6
Saturday Evening Post, 221, 234
scalawags, 182, 184–86, 313
servants, 14, 21, 26–28, 30–34, 37–38, 45–47, 73, 75, 94, 144
indentured, 13, 26–28, 30, 36–38, 41–42, 46, 58–60, 68–69, 72, 82, 144
Seven Years’ War, 69, 89, 109
Seward, William H., 160
sexual behavior, 27–28, 40, 67–68, 115–16, 126–27, 180–81, 187–90, 192–96, 246, 270, 303–6, 308, 320
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 44–46, 50
Shakespeare, William, 17, 27, 48
Shannon, “Mama” June, 307–8
Sharp, John, 197
Shay, Dorothy, 258
Shays, Daniel, 97
Shays’ Rebellion, 97, 107–8, 112
Shepard, Thomas, 34
Sherman, William T., 159, 171–72
shiftlessness, 225–26
Shoemaker, Nancy, 10
Short, Dewey, 257–59
Short, William, 100
Shrum, Bob, 284
Simmins, Bill, 181
Simms, William Gilmore, 162–63
slaves, slavery, 10, 14, 22, 27, 30, 31, 37–38, 40–42, 43, 52, 58–63, 68–69, 72, 82, 84, 89, 90, 94, 98, 135–37, 143, 144, 146–47, 149, 150, 152–53, 160, 162, 172, 207, 312, 319
abolition of, 146–47, 186
breeding and, 99–100
children of, 40–41
Civil War and, 156–63, 165
debt, 21, 27, 28, 30
draft and, 164
emancipation of, 177–78
in Georgia, 57–63
Jefferson and, 86, 88, 99–100, 103, 153
Locke and, 43, 44
in South Carolina, 46–47, 56–61
Smith, Adam, 217
Smith, “Cotton Ed,” 219
Smith, Green Clay, 178
Smith, John, 8–11, 17, 19, 26, 27, 39, 144
Smith, Lillian, 277–78
Smokey and the Bandit, 281
Social Relations in Our Southern States (Hundley), 135, 137
Society of Cincinnati, 96, 97
soldiers, 23–24, 74, 75, 181, 315
Afro-American, 157
Confederate, 160
Continental Army, 96, 97
desertion of, 164–66
draft and, 159, 163–64
World War I, 209
Sothell, Seth, 51
South, 8, 135–37, 145, 146, 148–49, 192, 206–30
see also Confederacy
South Carolina, 46–47, 51, 56–62, 162, 171
Southerner Discovers the South, A (Daniels), 229, 255
Southern Regions of the United States (Odum), 223–24
Sovereignty and Goodness of God, The (Rowlandson), 33
Soviet Union, 237
Sowell, Thomas, 308, 309
Spain, 145, 191
Spanish territories, 57, 61
Florida, 48, 56, 113, 121–22, 138
“Speech of Miss Polly Baker, The” (Franklin), 64, 67
Speer, Thomas Jefferson, 185–86
Spotswood, Alexander, 51–52
Squanto, 8
squatters, 107–14, 117, 119, 121–24, 128–32, 135, 142–43, 145, 147, 149, 153, 308, 317
Starr, Kenneth, 301
Steinbeck, John, 213, 217, 229, 259–60
Stephens, Alexander Hamilton, 143, 154, 158, 159
Sterling, Marcus, 179
Stevenson, Adlai, 260
Stokes, William, 195
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, xvi, 137, 148–53, 187
Streaks of Squatter Life (Robb), 129–31, 130
Stryker, Roy, 211, 218
suburbs, 238–40, 244, 317
Supreme Court, 113
Buck v. Bell, 174, 200, 201, 202, 203
Dred Scott, 153, 201
Tailfer, Patrick, 60
Talmadge, Eugene, 219, 279
Tanenhaus, Sam, 304
Taney, Roger B., 153, 201
Tarzan of the Apes (Burroughs), 9
Taussig, Frank William, 195
taxes, 96, 97, 193, 218, 240, 315
Taylor, Glen, 257
Tennessee, 113, 117, 121, 125
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), 224–25, 228–30, 253
Terman, Lewis, 198
Texas, 137–38, 140–43, 162
Thanksgiving, 7–8
Theognis, 101
Thicknesse, Philip, 57–58
Thoreau, Henry David, 148
Thornberry, Taylor, 250, 250
Tillman, Ben, 187
Time, 234, 249, 251–52, 264, 279
tobacco, 25, 27, 28, 31, 37, 38, 79, 86
To Kill a Mockingbird, xiii–xiv, 254–55, 296
trailers, 241–47, 243
Travolta, John, 276, 303
Trimlin, Milly, 152
Trowbridge, John, 179
Trump, Donald, 306, 316
Tucker, Nathaniel Beverley, 152
Tugwell, Rexford G., 217–20, 222, 223, 285
Tuskegee Institute, 188, 190
Tusser, Thomas, 110
Two Treatises of Government (Locke), 43, 50
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe), 137
Urban Cowboy, 276
Urmston, John, 55
Utopia (More), 25
vagrants, 105–7, 109, 116, 135, 153, 213
Van Buren, Martin, 128, 129
van der Straet, Jan, 34–35
Vanity Fair, 166, 168
Vardaman, James, 187–90, 192, 232, 252, 257, 279
Vespucci, Amerigo, 35
Veterans Administration (VA), 240
Virginia, 11, 19, 22, 25–31, 34, 36, 37, 41, 45, 46, 48–50, 52, 68, 79, 85–92, 95, 96, 98, 99, 110, 163, 200–201
Jamestown, 3, 8–10, 24–29, 34, 37, 91, 144, 151, 309
Richmond, 166–67
social order in, 91, 98, 99, 101–3
Virginia Company, 23–29
voting, 89, 98, 130–32, 149, 177, 183, 311, 313
Waiting for Nothing (Kromer), 210
Walker, Alexander, 139
Walker, David, 124, 125
Walker, Robert, 142–43, 145
Wallace, George, 279
Wallace, Henry, 212, 215–17, 220, 223, 317
Washington, Booker T., 188, 190
Washington, George, 5, 49, 77, 86–87, 89, 93, 98, 99, 119, 148, 155
, 192, 283, 311
Washington, Martha, 98
Washington, Portia, 188
Washington Post, 241, 242, 302, 312
Wasted Land, The, 224
wasteland, 19–20, 22–23, 34, 47, 211
waste people, xiii, xiv–xv, 2–3, 5, 14, 22, 34, 73, 269, 309, 315
in American colonies, 17–42
in England, 22–23, 29
Jefferson and, 91, 103
Wayles, John, 100
Webb, Paul, 256
Webster, Daniel, 6
Weetamoo, 33
welfare, 275, 278, 312, 318
West, 94–96, 105–7, 137–38, 146, 148, 153, 192
Weston, George, 136, 148
Wheeler, William, 172
When Did White Trash Become the New Normal? (Hays), 308–9
Whig Party, 119, 128, 129
White, John, 17
white trash, 135–36, 145, 151–52, 172, 178, 270, 276–77, 291, 309
White Trash Cooking (Mickler), 276
Widow Ranter, The (Behn), 40
Wigfall, Louis T., 159
Wild River, 253
William the Conqueror, 80
Wilmot, David, 147
Wilson, Alex (journalist), 251
Wilson, Alexander (ornithologist), 113–14, 116
Wilson, Charles Morrow, 213
Wilson, Gretchen, 304
Wilson, Milburn Lincoln, 213–17, 223
Winning of the West, The (Roosevelt), 191
Winthrop, John, 5, 6, 10–12, 29–31, 35, 64
Win tribe, 200
Wirt, William, 102
Wister, Owen, 192
Wolfe, Tom, 280
women, 115, 170, 178–79, 183, 311
in American colonies, 27–28, 36–37, 40–41
childbearing by, 66–67, 100, 192–95, 203, 318
eugenics and, 192–97, 203
Wood, Grant, 234, 234
Woodbury, Levi, 142
Woodmason, Charles, 110
Woodruff, Judy, 284
Works Progress Administration, 221
World of Our Fathers (Howe), 276
World War I, 197–98, 202, 209
World War II, 223, 246
Yorba Linda, Calif., 245–46
You Can’t Sleep Here (Newhouse), 210
Young, Andrew, 282, 302
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