Sweet Dreams: The World of Patsy Cline (Music in American Life)

by Warren R. Hofstra

“Working class might best be defined like this: You do not have power over your work. You do not control when you work, how much you get paid, how fast you work, or whether you will be cut loose from your job at the first shiver on Wall Street”

In racial integrity legislation passed in the 1920s, Virginia had outlawed interracial marriage as well as racial intermixing in theaters and public places, proclaiming the “one-drop rule” defining blackness and premised upon the horror that the stock of one black ancestor, however distant, impregnated in the white race would degrade its presumed superiority forever.