Southern Migrants, Northern Exiles

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Summary: Just wonderful!!!!!!
Review: I loved the book! Both of my parents and grandparents moved to "DEEtroit" from Kentucky to work in the car factories. I saw a great deal of my family and self in the pages of this book. The personal accounts of the "hillbillies" jumped off of the page at me! Sounds corney....but "this book spoke to me!" I never knew that such a massive amount of people (hillbillies) came north to escape the poverty of the south and how they struggled in the north. I grew-up thinking it was something unique to my family. My family came from Clay and Knox counties KY! The south did rise again...and no one noticed! Thank you for writing this book!

Rating:
Summary: Just wonderful!!!!!!
Review: I loved the book! Both of my parents and grandparents moved to "DEEtroit" from Kentucky to work in the car factories. I saw a great deal of my family and self in the pages of this book. The personal accounts of the "hillbillies" jumped off of the page at me! Sounds corney....but "this book spoke to me!" I never knew that such a massive amount of people (hillbillies) came north to escape the poverty of the south and how they struggled in the north. I grew-up thinking it was something unique to my family. My family came from Clay and Knox counties KY! The south did rise again...and no one noticed! Thank you for writing this book!

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Summary: Berry combines interviews, research
Review: This book is designed for the scholar, the student and the discriminating, intellectually curious reader. The oral histories which Berry has recorded and published bring these people seeking a better life into sharp focus. He couples their stories with exhaustive research and statistics to give a well-rounded view of the white migration from the south to the more industrialized (and more upwardly mobile) north and midwest. This book counters some of the myths surrounding these southerners. They are definitely not lazy, shiftless, stupid or immoral. They simply are seeking the "American dream." In the process they helped transform this nation.