| Description |
1 online resource (479 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Politics and culture in modern America |
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Politics and culture in modern America.
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| Contents |
Sunbelt boosterism: industrial recruitment, economic development, and growth policies in the developing sunbelt / Elizabeth Tandy Shermer -- Strom Thurmond's sunbelt: rethinking regional politics and the rise of the Right / Joseph Crespino -- Big government and family values: political culture in the metropolitan sunbelt / Matthew D. Lassiter -- Religion and political behavior in the sunbelt / Lyman A. Kellstedt and James L. Guth -- From the Southwest to the nation: interracial civil rights activism in Los Angeles / Shana Bernstein -- Sunbelt civil rights: urban renewal and the follies of desegregation in greater Miami / N.D.B. Connolly -- Racial liberalism and the rise of the sunbelt West: the defeat of fair housing on the 1964 California ballot / Daniel Martinez HoSang -- Sunbelt lock-up: where the suburbs met the super-max / Volker Janssen -- Sunbelt imperialism: boosters, Navajos, and energy development in the metropolitan Southwest / Andrew Needham -- Real estate and race: imagining the second circuit of capital in sunbelt cities / Carl Abbott -- The marketplace missions of S. Truett Cathy and Chick-fil-A / Darren E. Grem -- Tortilla politics: Mexican food, globalization, and the sunbelt / Laresh Jayasanker -- Latinos in the sunbelt: political implications of demographic change / Sylvia Manzano |
| Summary |
This volume examines patterns of growth, government organization, and cultural representation that created a new region across the nation's southern rim following World War II. Essays explain how ideology and political economy restructured space within the Sunbelt, making the landscape and lives of its inhabitants more uniformly metropolitan |
| Analysis |
American History |
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American Studies |
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Political Science |
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Public Policy |
| Notes |
"Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Political culture -- Sunbelt States
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Regionalism -- Sunbelt States
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HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
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Economic history
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Political culture
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Politics and government
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Race relations -- Political aspects
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Regionalism
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| SUBJECT |
Sunbelt States -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
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Sunbelt States -- Politics and government -- 20th century
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Sunbelt States -- Race relations -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century
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| Subject |
United States -- Sunbelt States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dochuk, Darren, editor.
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Nickerson, Michelle M., editor.
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William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies.
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| LC no. |
2010039358 |
| ISBN |
9780812209976 |
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0812209974 |
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0812243099 |
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9780812243093 |
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