Introduction: Fables we forget by -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.
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