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White Trash

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by Nancy Isenberg

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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