The Southern Fault Line: How Race, Class, and Region Shaped One Family's History

A highly original reinterpretation of how race and class shaped the entirety of Southern history through the experience of four interconnected family lines.

The Southern Fault Line explores the under-appreciated division in the South between the oligarchic rule of plantation owners and industrialists on the one hand, and the more democratic mindset of the mountain-dwelling small farmers on the other. These two mindsets were in continual tension from the 1800s to the 1960s, when the adherent...