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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Wayne Flynt may not have started the late-twentieth-century wave of historical research on postbellum Southern poor whites, but he was the first to catch it. In engaging and accessible prose Dixie's Forgotten People surveyed what was in 1979 a largely unknown landscape and laid out an agenda for research that is still not completed. Flynt's retrospective introduction to this new edition is itself worth the price of the book." -John Reed, University of North Carolina
Table of ContentsPreface to the Original Edition
Introduction (2004)
1. The Invisible Poor: Toward a Definition of Southern Poor Whites
2. Dogtrots and Jack Tales: Toward a Definition of Poor White Culture
3. "Lint Heads" and "Diggers": The Forgotten People of the New South, 1865-1920
4. Progress and Poverty, Southern Style: The 1920s and 1930s
5. Southern Poverty Forgotten and Discovered—Again
6. Appalachian Spring—and Winter
7. "A time to weep, a time to laugh . . . "
Bibliography
Bibliographical Supplement (2004)
Notes
Index
