White Southerners, USA (nonfiction)
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Dixie's Forgotten People, New Edition: The South's Poor Whites (Minorities in Modern America)
by:
Wayne Flynt
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 19 ratings 2. 
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
by:
Tony Horwitz
4.10 avg rating — 24,892 ratings 3. 
Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy 4.09 avg rating — 504 ratings
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Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
by:
Beth Macy
4.07 avg rating — 44,190 ratings 6. 
Mama Makes Up Her Mind and Other Dangers of Southern Living
by:
Bailey White
3.96 avg rating — 5,055 ratings 7. 
Ben Tillman & the Reconstruction of White Supremacy (The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies) 3.85 avg rating — 92 ratings
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White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism
by:
Kevin M. Kruse
4.27 avg rating — 1,015 ratings 10. 
How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America 4.31 avg rating — 4,664 ratings
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Unlikely Dissenters: White Southern Women in the Fight for Racial Justice, 1920–1970
by:
Anne Stefani
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 12. 
In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History
by:
Mitch Landrieu
4.03 avg rating — 2,995 ratings 13. 
Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War
by:
Joe Bageant
3.85 avg rating — 4,167 ratings 
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Appalachian Fall: Dispatches from Coal Country on What's Ailing America
by:
Jeff Young
4.01 avg rating — 191 ratings 13. 
Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
by:
Ty Seidule
4.41 avg rating — 5,504 ratings 13. 
Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World (The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies) 4.03 avg rating — 131 ratings
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Yankee Leviathan: The Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859-1877 3.69 avg rating — 49 ratings
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White Spirituals in the Southern Uplands: The Story of the Fasola Folk, Their Songs, Singings, and "Buckwheat Notes" really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
20. 
Redeemer Nation: The Idea of America's Millennial Role (Midway Reprint Series) 3.89 avg rating — 18 ratings
23. 
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
by:
Nancy Isenberg
3.76 avg rating — 24,555 ratings 23. 
What′s the Matter with White People? Why We Long for a Golden Age That Never Was
by:
Joan Walsh
3.73 avg rating — 392 ratings 23. 
North over South: Northern Nationalism and American Identity in the Antebellum Era
by:
Susan-Mary Grant
4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings 
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The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory
by:
Adam H. Domby
4.25 avg rating — 215 ratings 26. 
White People, Indians, and Highlanders: Tribal People and Colonial Encounters in Scotland and America 3.97 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Alternative Americas: A Reading of Antebellum Political Culture
by:
Anne Norton
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
30. 
Sectional Nationalism: Massachusetts Conservative Leaders and the Transformation of America, 1815-1836
by:
Harlow Sheidley
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 32. 
Pilgrimage to Dollywood: A Country Music Road Trip through Tennessee
by:
Helen Morales
3.66 avg rating — 188 ratings 33. 
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
by:
J.D. Vance
3.85 avg rating — 488,824 ratings 
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They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South 4.29 avg rating — 4,915 ratings
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Myths America Lives By: White Supremacy and the Stories That Give Us Meaning 4.17 avg rating — 208 ratings
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Champion of Civil Rights: Judge John Minor Wisdom (Southern Biography Series) 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
38. 
The United States of Appalachia: How Southern Mountaineers Brought Independence, Culture, and Enlightenment to America
by:
Jeff Biggers
3.75 avg rating — 189 ratings 38. 
The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics
by:
Dan T. Carter
4.21 avg rating — 352 ratings 40. 
The Confessions of Edward Isham: A Poor White Life of the Old South 3.93 avg rating — 27 ratings
42. 
A Thrilling Narrative: The Memoir of a Southern Unionist
by:
Dennis E. Haynes
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 
44. 
The Man Who Punched Jefferson Davis: The Political Life of Henry S. Foote, Southern Unionist (Southern Biography Series)
by:
Ben Wynne
4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings 44. 
The Wild Man from Sugar Creek: The Political Career of Eugene Talmadge
by:
William Anderson
4.08 avg rating — 39 ratings 46. 
God'll Cut You Down: The Tangled Tale of a White Supremacist, a Black Hustler, a Murder, and How I Lost a Year in Mississippi
by:
John Safran
3.63 avg rating — 3,878 ratings 
49. 
The Secret Life of Bacon Tait, a White Slave Trader Married to a Free Woman of Color
by:
Hank Trent
3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings 49. 
Conquistador’s Wake: Tracking the Legacy of Hernando de Soto in the Indigenous Southeast 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
51. 
Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: A Memoir of Learning to Believe You’re Gonna Be Okay
by:
Sean Dietrich
4.49 avg rating — 2,220 ratings 51. 
Writing the South through the Self: Explorations in Southern Autobiography
by:
John C. Inscoe
4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings 53. 
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge 3.83 avg rating — 10,181 ratings
53. 
A Separate Civil War: Communities in Conflict in the Mountain South 4.31 avg rating — 16 ratings
55. 
Lincoln's Resolute Unionist: Hamilton Gamble, Dred Scott Dissenter and Missouri's Civil War Governor (Southern Biography Series)
by:
Dennis K. Boman
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
57. 
The Deepest South of All: True Stories from Natchez, Mississippi
by:
Richard Grant
4.03 avg rating — 3,727 ratings 
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Louisiana Saturday Night: Looking for a Good Time in South Louisiana's Juke Joints, Honky-Tonks, and Dance Halls
by:
Alex V. Cook
4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings 60. 
You Must Be from the North: Southern White Women in the Memphis Civil Rights Movement 3.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Down Along with That Devil's Bones: A Reckoning with Monuments, Memory, and the Legacy of White Supremacy 4.13 avg rating — 741 ratings
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Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area
by:
Harry M. Caudill
4.07 avg rating — 1,108 ratings 62. 
The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South
by:
Chip Jones
3.75 avg rating — 1,507 ratings 
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The Vapors: A Southern Family, the New York Mob, and the Rise and Fall of Hot Springs, America's Forgotten Capital of Vice
by:
David Hill
3.78 avg rating — 1,914 ratings 66. 
A Consuming Fire: The Fall of the Confederacy in the Mind of the White Christian South 3.90 avg rating — 84 ratings
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The World of Jak Smyrl: South Carolina Artist, Journalist, Cartoonist
by:
Joan A Inabinet
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 68. 
South Carolina Fire-Eater: The Life of Laurence Massillon Keitt, 1824-1864
by:
Holt Merchant
4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings 68. 
Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics: Roots and Branches of Southern Appalachian Dance
by:
Phil Jamison
4.44 avg rating — 25 ratings 70. 
American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
by:
Monica Hesse
3.79 avg rating — 16,446 ratings 70. 
Storytellers: Folktales and Legends from the South (Brown Thrasher Books)
by:
John A. Burrison
4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings 72. 
Earl K. Long: The Saga of Uncle Earl and Louisiana Politics (Southern Biography Series)
by:
Michael L. Kurtz
3.97 avg rating — 36 ratings 
74. 
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
by:
Casey Cep
3.77 avg rating — 25,714 ratings 75. 
Backcountry Slave Trader: William James Smith's Enterprise, 1844–1854 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877
by:
Eric Foner
4.21 avg rating — 6,120 ratings 77. 
The Complete Lunch Box: The Life and Works of Deacon Lunch Book, a Cornucopia of Southern Culture
by:
Tim Ruttenber
4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings 
80. 
Notorious Woman: The Celebrated Case of Myra Clark Gaines (Southern Biography Series) 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
82. 
White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South
by:
Martha Hodes
3.87 avg rating — 124 ratings 
84. 
Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South 3.90 avg rating — 468 ratings
84. 
Talking Feet: Solo Southern Dance: Buck, Flatfoot, and Tap
by:
Mike Seeger
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 86. 
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
by:
Jessica Bruder
4.03 avg rating — 49,874 ratings 86. 
Speak Now Against The Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South
by:
John Egerton
4.23 avg rating — 65 ratings 88. 
The Maid Narratives: Black Domestics and White Families in the Jim Crow South 3.81 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland 4.11 avg rating — 6,867 ratings
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Our Southern Highlanders: Introduction By George Ellison
by:
Horace Kephart
4.18 avg rating — 652 ratings 92. 
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow 4.16 avg rating — 4,105 ratings
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Separate Pasts: Growing Up White in the Segregated South (Brown Thrasher Books) 3.83 avg rating — 186 ratings
94. 
Looking for De Soto: A Search Through the South for the Spaniard's Trail 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Southern Outcast: Hinton Rowan Helper and The Impending Crisis of the South (Southern Biography Series)
by:
David Brown
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
