Introduction: Fables We Forget By
Part I. To Begin the World Anew. 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
Part II. Degeneration of the American Breed. 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
Part III. The White Trash Makeover. Redneck Roots: Deliverance, Billy Beer, and Tammy Faye ; Outing Rednecks: Slumming, Slick Willie, and Sarah Palin
Epilogue: America's Strange Sreed: The Long Legacy of White Trash.