| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 390 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Contents |
Introduction: Finding the deeper conservatism of the American Midwest / Jon K. Lauck and Catherine McNicol Stock -- The surprising new political battleground: the Midwest / Michael Barone -- The emerging Republican Midwest? Forty years of political change in the Heartland / Kyle Kondik -- Fly-to country: the Midwest as presidential battleground, 1946-2016 / Daniel R. Birdsong and Christopher J. Devine -- Urban/rural frictions in the Midwest: the Chicago-downstate battle for legislative reapportionment in Illinois, 1953-1965 / Devin Hunter -- Politics make for strange bedfellows: Republican feminists fight for abortion rights in Michigan, 1968-1982 / Ann Marie Wambeke -- Combative conservatism at the "Berkeley of the Midwest": the American Spectator and Baby Boomer conservative intellectuals, 1967-1973 / Daniel Spillman -- A new "state of superior": political fracture and antienvironmentalism in the Upper Midwest / Camden Burd -- "The little guy for the little guy": 1969 Minneapolis and the white working-class revolt / Jeffrey Bloodworth -- Not "fit to sleep with the hogs": James Rhodes, working-class populism, and the Rust Belt / William Russell Coil -- "There exists a conservative veneer": Terry Branstad, Chuck Grassley, and the New Right's capture of Republican politics in Iowa, 1976-1986 -- From breweries to the Super-max : the making of carceral populism in metropolitan Milwaukee, 1950-2000 / Ian Toller-Clark -- The decline of South Dakota Democrats and the fall of George McGovern, 1974-1980 / Jon K. Lauck -- Local and regional countercurrents: Reagan Democrats and the politics of the Rust Belt, 1976-1988 / Daniel Rowe -- Red rogues orbit blue stars: "astro-politics" in the Trump-era upper Midwest / Zachary Michael Jack -- Mitch Daniels and conservative politics in the changing Midwest / A. James Fuller -- Reading the Ralph: privatization in the "new" North Dakota, 1989-2018 / Catherine McNicol Stock -- Culture wars in the Midwest: same-sex marriage votes in the states / Chad Kinsella |
| Summary |
"Journalists, political pundits, and historians alike were shocked not just by the election of Donald Trump but also by the degree of support he won in states that Democrats had long presumed to be safe. Taken together, the seventeen essays in this collection detail the rise of Midwestern conservatism after World War II by identifying the specific policies, issues, leaders, geographic and demographic changes, controversies, and social causes that helped Midwestern conservative groups grow. It includes essays on nine different states, covering every decade of the postwar period, and looks at the conservative movement through the lenses of race, class, gender, and sexuality. Topics include the rural/urban divide, the development of a conservative intellectual program, environmentalism and its critics, responses to deindustrialization, regional support for Reagan, privatization and its consequences, mass incarceration, and the debates over same-sex marriage, abortion, and second wave feminism"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Conservatism -- Middle West
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
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Conservatism
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
Middle West -- Politics and government
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| Subject |
Middle West
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lauck, Jon, 1971- editor
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Stock, Catherine McNicol, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780700629329 |
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0700629327 |
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