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“We cling to the comfort of a middle class, forgetting that there can't be a middle class without a lower.”

Politics Class Poverty Economics Division

Book:White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

Source: White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

“Every era in the continent's vaunted developmental story had its own taxonomy of waste people-unwanted and unsalvageable. Each era had its own means of distancing its version of white trash from the mainstream ideal.”

Poverty Economics Class Struggle White Trash

Book:White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

Source: White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

“For most Americans of the eighteenth century, it was assumed impossible for a servant to shed his lowly origins; the meaner sort, as one newspaper insisted, could never “wash out the stain of servility.” There were fears that the meaner sort were treading too close on the heels of those above them.”

America Class Poverty White Trash

Book:White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

Source: White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

“This is why Paine was careful to downplay the distinction between the rich and the poor. He wanted his American readers to focus on distant kings, not local grandees. He wanted them to break with the Crown, not to disturb the class order.”

Class White Trash Thomas Paine

Book:White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

Source: White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

“More than any other colonial founder, Oglethorpe made himself one of the people, promoting collective effort.”

Class Economics Colonial America Oglethorpe

Book:White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

Source: White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

“We need to stop thinking that some Americans are the real Americans, the deserving, the talented, the most patriotic and hardworking, while other can be dismissed as less deserving of the American dream.”

American Dream Americans Real American

Book:White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

Source: White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

“History is not a bedtime story. It is a comprehensive engagement with often obscure documents and books no longer read—books shelved in old archives, and fragile pamphlets contemporaneous with the subject under study—all of which reflect a world view not ours.”

History Historical American History Us History American Hamilton Founding Fathers Aaron Burr Nancy Isenberg

Book:Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr

Source: Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr

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