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Southern migrants, Northern exiles /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Berry, Chad, 1963-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2000]
Subjects:
Migration, Internal > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Migration, Internal > Middle West > History > 20th century.
Poor > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Labor mobility > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Of dollmakers, job seekers, and divided hearts
  • Footloose and dependent: the pioneers
  • Up North and down home: Southern migrants and the Great Depression
  • The discovery of poverty and migration: Midwestern politicians, New Dealers, and congressmen
  • What a difference a war makes
  • The great white migration, 1945-60
  • South by Midwest: transplanted Southern white culture
  • The 1960s and beyond: battling, and disproving, stereotypes
  • Epilogue: return from exile?
  • Bibliography
  • Index.