The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera

Traces the development of the Florida-Alabama coast as a tourist destination from the late 1920s and early 1930s, when it was sparsely populated with small fishing villages, through to the tragic and devastating BP/Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010. Harvey H. Jackson III explores the rise of this area as a vacation destination for the lower South's middle- and working-class families.