Editing Jim Goad (section)

====''The Redneck Manifesto''====
In 1994, Goad signed a two-book deal with [[Simon & Schuster]] for $100,000.<ref name="LLC1999">{{cite magazine|last=Smith|first=RJ|title=American Psycho|magazine=Spin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YG5YubNw1pgC&pg=PA101|access-date=4 October 2011|edition=15|volume=1|date=January 1999 |pages=101–109|issn=0886-3032}}</ref> ''The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats'' was published in 1997. The book explores the idea of poor whites celebrating their heritage similar to poor African Americans, and that discrimination in the United States is focused around [[social class]], not [[Race (classification of humans)|race]]. His thesis is that the rich elite blind the poor, and cause them to fight one another, instead of working together for their mutual benefit.<ref name="Colorado">{{cite web |url=http://cozine.com/1997-december/the-redneck-manifesto-by-jim-goad/ |title=The Redneck Manifesto by Jim Goad |author=Marcia Darnell |date=December 1997 |work=Rural Life |publisher=Colorado Central |access-date=25 February 2012 |archive-date=18 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151018064134/http://cozine.com/1997-december/the-redneck-manifesto-by-jim-goad/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>