Dixie's Forgotten People: The South's Poor Whites

By Wayne Flynt

Book Overview

Protestant residents of the Bible Belt, mostly Anglo-Saxon in origin, form part of the most ethnically homogeneous region of the United States. Yet if ethnicity defines a group of racially and historically related people who share a common culture, Southern poor whites obviously are a distinct group. Poor whites have been isolated from mainstream white Southern culture and have been in turn stereotyped by the dominant culture (as rednecks and Holy Rollers), discriminated against, and misunderstood. In their isolation, they have developed a unique subculture and defended it with a tenacity and pride that puzzles and confuses the larger society. Written twenty-five years ago, this book was one scholar's attempt to understand these people and their culture. For this new edition, Wayne Flynt has provided a new introduction and an up-to-date bibliography. Book jacket.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253197651
• ISBN13: 9780253197658
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.