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

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

Author: Max Fraser

ISBN-13: 9780691191119

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2023

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One Sentence Summary
A holistic cultural and economic history of the migration of millions of white Southerners to the industrial Midwest and the impact of this migration on labor, politics, media, and American identity.
Why I Chose This Book
I grew up in Appalachian Ohio and wanted to understand more about my social, economic, and cultural roots.
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social history sociology non-fiction