Part of the stable of Southern writers who emerged as a consequence of the Roosevelt administration's efforts to bring the South into the 20th century, Thomas Wolfe, in the words of the Columbia Literary History of the United States (NY, 1988, passim), tried "to fuse the anguished division" between North and South in "a torrent of poetic prose".
To give you a flavour of the South, here's a sample audio recording from West Virginia :
