“ You really romanticize the white-trash period of your life,' Rain once said to me, which I thought was a little hurtful but perhaps true. Dan Chaon
“ 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 m… Nancy Isenberg
“ 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 servilit… Nancy Isenberg
