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Hillbilly Highway

by Max Fraser
Lyle Blaker
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Over the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, as many as eight million whites left the economically depressed southern countryside and migrated to the booming factory towns and cities of the industrial Midwest in search of work. The "hillbilly highway" was one of the largest internal relocations of poor and working people in American history, yet it has largely escaped close study by historians. In Hillbilly Highway, Max Fraser recovers the long-overlooked story of this massive demographic event and reveals how it has profoundly influenced American history and culture—from the modern industrial labor movement and the postwar urban crisis to the rise of today's white working-class conservatives.
The book draws on a diverse range of sources—from government reports, industry archives, and union records to novels, memoirs, oral histories, and country music—to narrate the distinctive class experience that unfolded across the Transappalachian migration during these critical decades. As the migration became a terrain of both social advancement and marginalization, it knit together white working-class communities across the Upper South and the Midwest—bringing into being a new cultural region that remains a contested battleground in American politics to the present.
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Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9798350850574
  • File size: 292306 KB
  • Release date: September 26, 2023
  • Duration: 10:08:58

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  • ISBN: 9798350850574
  • File size: 292357 KB
  • Release date: September 26, 2023
  • Duration: 10:17:50
  • Number of parts: 13

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Politics Sociology Nonfiction

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Over the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, as many as eight million whites left the economically depressed southern countryside and migrated to the booming factory towns and cities of the industrial Midwest in search of work. The "hillbilly highway" was one of the largest internal relocations of poor and working people in American history, yet it has largely escaped close study by historians. In Hillbilly Highway, Max Fraser recovers the long-overlooked story of this massive demographic event and reveals how it has profoundly influenced American history and culture—from the modern industrial labor movement and the postwar urban crisis to the rise of today's white working-class conservatives.
The book draws on a diverse range of sources—from government reports, industry archives, and union records to novels, memoirs, oral histories, and country music—to narrate the distinctive class experience that unfolded across the Transappalachian migration during these critical decades. As the migration became a terrain of both social advancement and marginalization, it knit together white working-class communities across the Upper South and the Midwest—bringing into being a new cultural region that remains a contested battleground in American politics to the present.
Expand title description text
Politics Sociology Nonfiction
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Tantor Media, Inc
    Edition:
    Unabridged

    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    ISBN: 9798350850574
    File size: 292306 KB
    Release date: September 26, 2023
    Duration: 10:08:58

    MP3 audiobook
    ISBN: 9798350850574
    File size: 292357 KB
    Release date: September 26, 2023
    Duration: 10:17:50
    Number of parts: 13

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  • Formats
    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    MP3 audiobook
  • Languages
    English