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From Mountain to Metropolis: Appalachian Migrants in American Cities (review)

From Mountain to Metropolis: Appalachian Migrants in American Cities (review) From Mountain to Metropolis: Appalachian Migrants in American Cities (review) Appalachian Heritage, Volume 22, Number 4, Fall 1994, pp. 69-71 (Review) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1994.0079 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/437249/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 21:17 GMT from JHU Libraries be only tourists in the South and Southerners who want to reminisce about how their grandparents spoke. In this regard, the more books like Southern Talk that can be put on bookstore shelves around the South, the better. This one is a rich collection that deserves wide distribution, especially around Christmas time. —Michael Montgomery Katheryn M. Borman and Phillip J. Obermiller. From Mountain to Metropolis: Appalachian Migrants in American Cities. Westport, Connecticut: Bergin and Garvey, 1994. 223 pages. $55.00. This welcome book is a social scientists' survey of the emerging problems that have developed in American cities from the great internal migration northward of Appalachian people. Large numbers of descendants of Appalachians have lived in the American urban centers mostly in the Midwest for over fifty years, and in some cases there are fourth and fifth generations descended from Appa- lachian migrants. A considerable story has developed, and this book http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

From Mountain to Metropolis: Appalachian Migrants in American Cities (review)

Appalachian Review , Volume 22 (4) – Jan 8, 2014
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From Mountain to Metropolis: Appalachian Migrants in American Cities (review) Appalachian Heritage, Volume 22, Number 4, Fall 1994, pp. 69-71 (Review) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1994.0079 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/437249/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 21:17 GMT from JHU Libraries be only tourists in the South and Southerners who want to reminisce about how their grandparents spoke. In this regard, the more books like Southern Talk that can be put on bookstore shelves around the South, the better. This one is a rich collection that deserves wide distribution, especially around Christmas time. —Michael Montgomery Katheryn M. Borman and Phillip J. Obermiller. From Mountain to Metropolis: Appalachian Migrants in American Cities. Westport, Connecticut: Bergin and Garvey, 1994. 223 pages. $55.00. This welcome book is a social scientists' survey of the emerging problems that have developed in American cities from the great internal migration northward of Appalachian people. Large numbers of descendants of Appalachians have lived in the American urban centers mostly in the Midwest for over fifty years, and in some cases there are fourth and fifth generations descended from Appa- lachian migrants. A considerable story has developed, and this book

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