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

by Bryan Jones

Opposing perspectives on the desirability of democracy and equality dominates white Southern history. Both before and after the end of slavery, plantation oligarchs rejected democracy, while small farmers in the upcountry embraced it--if only for whites. Drawing from his own family's centuries-old roots in the region, the eminent American politics scholar Bryan Jones compares the experiences of a slaveholding line with three non-slaveholding lines...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197770428
• ISBN13: 9780197770429
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 448 Pages