Tyler Greene is a PhD Candidate in the History Department at Temple University. His dissertation explores the role of highways and commercial trucking in the industrialization of the rural South after World War II. He examines how the emergence of a rural-industrial geography in the South has reshaped the nation’s political economy. A native of North Carolina, his project focuses especially on the Tar Heel State, arguing that its transformation provides a useful window into the collapse of the New Deal state and the triumph of a political economy defined by low wages, limited regulations, and anti-unionism.