Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class

Title: Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class Author: Max Fraser ISBN: 9780691191119 Publisher: Princeton University Press Published: 2023 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher American History 1557140 Publisher Description: The largely untold story of the great migration of white southerners to the industrial Midwest and its profound and enduring political and social consequences 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,