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I didn’t know that money could make the cell doors swing open. I didn’t know that if a woman was drunk when the violence occurred, she wouldn’t be taken seriously. I didn’t know that if he was drunk when the violence occurred, people would ...more
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“The popularity among professional ball players was so great that Hot Springs eventually became the official spring training location for a number of major- and minor-league teams, including the Brooklyn Dodgers, the Boston Red Sox, and the Pittsburgh Pirates.”
David Hill, The Vapors: A Southern Family, the New York Mob, and the Rise and Fall of Hot Springs, America's Forgotten Capital of Vice

Nancy Isenberg
“Throughout its history, the United States has always had a class system. It is not only directed by the top 1 percent and supported by a contented middle class. We can no longer ignore the stagnant, expendable bottom layers of society in explaining the national identity.”
Nancy Isenberg, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

Elizabeth Strout
“No, they would never get over that night because they had said things that altered how they saw each other.”
Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge

Nancy Isenberg
“North Carolina forged a lasting legacy as what we might call the first white trash colony.”
Nancy Isenberg, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

Nancy Isenberg
“Historical mythmaking is made possible only by forgetting. We have to begin, then, with the first refusal to face reality: most colonizing schemes that took root in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British America were built on privilege and subordination, not any kind of proto-democracy”
Nancy Isenberg, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

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