Southern Migrants Northern Exiles by Chad Berry PAPERBACK 9780252068416

Southern Migrants, Northern ExilesAuthor(s): Chad Berry\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Illinois Press, United States\nImprint: University of Illinois Press\nISBN-13: 9780252068416, 978-0252068416\nSynopsis\nOne of the largest internal migrations in [url] history, the great white migration left its mark on virtually every family in every southern upland and flatland town. In this extraordinary record of ordinary lives, dozens of white southern migrants describe their experiences in the northern \""wilderness\"" and their irradicable attachments to family and community in the South. Southern out-migration drew millions of southern workers to the steel mills, automobile factories, and even agricultural fields and orchards of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and Illinois. Through vivid oral histories, Chad Berry explores the conflict between migrants' economic success and their \""spiritual exile\"" in the North. He documents the tension between factory owners who welcomed cheap, naive.