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noTes introduction: Placing california in Post-World War ii american Politics 1. cricket levering memo to club legislative chairs, 49th assembly district, 29 april 1959, steven Zetterberg Mss, california state archives, Box 2, cdc 1959–60 file. 2. see clemens Haeusler, “The transatlantic exchanges Between american liberals , British labourites, and German social democrats from the Mid-1950s to the Mid1970s ,” Ph.d. dissertation, university of cambridge, 2010. 3. see everett carll ladd and charles d. Hadley, Transformations of the American Party System: Political Coalitions from the New Deal to the 1970s (new York, 1975), 93–111. 4. see Jennifer a. delton, Making Minnesota Liberal: Civil Rights and the Transformation of the Democratic Party (Minneapolis, 2002). important california democrats of the last forty years include Phil and John Burton, Pat Brown, tony coelho, leon Panetta, dianne Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, Henry Waxman, and nancy Pelosi. 5. california does not fit neatly into david Plotke’s “building a democratic order” thesis that focuses on the 1930s and 1940s: Plotke, Building a Democratic Political Order: Reshaping American Liberalism in the 1930s and 1940s (cambridge, 1996). 6. For discussions of gay rights politics, see John d’emilio, “Gay Politics, Gay community: san Francisco’s experience,” Socialist Review 55 (1981): 77–104, and his Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940–1970 (chicago, 1983); susan stryker and Jim Van Buskirk, Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area (san Francisco, 1996); nan alamilla Boyd, Wide Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965 (Berkeley, 2003); Martin Meeker, Contacts Desired: Gay and Lesbian Communications and Community , 1940s–1970s (chicago, 2005). For good discussions of welfare rights politics, see Premilla nadasen, Welfare Warriors: The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States (new York, 2005); Felicia Kornbluh, The Battle for Welfare Rights: Politics and Poverty in Modern America (Philadelphia, 2007). My work brings together these histories by looking at ways in which welfare rights and civil rights intersected in electoral and legislative politics. 7. see lisa McGirr, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right (Princeton: 2001); Kurt schuparra, Triumph of the Right: The Rise of the California Conservative Movement, 1945–1966 (new York, 1998); Bruce J. schulman and Julian Zelizer, notes to Pages 6–12 282 eds., Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s (cambridge, Mass., 2008). 8. McGirr, Suburban Warriors, 271. an interesting treatment of the ambiguities of suburban politics is Matthew lassiter, The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South (Princeton, 2006). see also Kevin M. Kruse and Thomas J. sugrue, eds., The New Suburban History (chicago, 2006). 9. see elizabeth tandy shermer, “origins of the conservative ascendancy: Barry Goldwater’s early senate career and the de-legitimization of organized labor,” Journal of American History 95, 3 (december 2008): 678–709; Thomas W. evans, The Education of Ronald Reagan: The General Electric Years and the Untold Story of His Conversion to Conservatism (new York, 2006); elizabeth tandy shermer, “counter-organizing the sunbelt: right-to-Work campaigns and anti-union conservatism, 1943–1958,” Pacific Historical Review 78 (February 2009): 81–119. 10. see risa l. Goluboff, The Lost Promise of Civil Rights (cambridge, Mass., 2007); robert rodgers Korstad, Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South (chapel Hill, 2007); Thomas J. sugrue, Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North (new York, 2009). 11. donald t. critchlow, Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman’s Crusade (Princeton, 2005), 7. chapter 1. Politics and Party in california at Mid-century 1. see u.s. department of commerce, Statistical Abstracts of the United States, 78th annual ed. (Washington, 1957), 30, table 27. 2. John aubrey douglass, “earl Warren’s new deal: economic transition, Public Planning, and Higher education in california,” Journal of Policy History 12, 4 (2000): 473ff. 3. see daniel Hurewitz, Bohemian Los Angeles and the Making of Modern Politics (Berkeley, 2007); robert o. self, American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland (Princeton: 2003); Fraser M. ottanelli, The Communist Party of the United States from the Depression to World War Two (new Brunswick, 1991), 118–19; Harvey Klehr, The Heyday of American Communism: The Depression Decade (new York, 1984), esp. 173–76. 4. douglass, “earl Warren’s new deal,” 473. 5. Political scientists such as david Mayhew and James Q. Wilson have described this phenomenon, leading Mayhew to go so far as to...
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