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From Yeoman to Redneck in the South Carolina Upcountry, 1850–1915. By Stephen A. West. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008. xiv, 261 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8139-2699-5.)
In this ambitious and provocative volume, Stephen A. West argues that the transition from yeoman to redneck in popular ideas about working whites in the South Carolina upcountry represented a movement from a hegemonic ideal that tried to unite farmers and wealthier planters to a disparaging image of people too backward and violent to fit into notions of a progressive new South. From Yeoman to Redneck offers an intriguing mix of deconstruction and construction of language and a larger amount of fairly straightforward analysis of political divisions over specific issues. . . .
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