Mark’s Reviews > White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America > Status Update

I thought this was interesting. "Bragging had a distinction class dimension in the 1820s and 1830s....Like certain masters of gansta rap in the twenty-first century, crackers had to make up for their lowly status by dressing themselves up in a boisterous verbal garb. In the Crockett manner, lying and boasting made up for the absence of class pedigree."