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 鈥渉illbilly highway鈥 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鈥攆rom the modern industrial labor movement and the postwar urban crisis to the rise of today鈥檚 white working-class conservatives.
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Max Fraser is assistant professor of history at the University of Miami. A former journalist, he has written for the Nation and other publications.