[BOOK][B] The silent majority: Suburban politics in the sunbelt south
MD Lassiter - 2007 - degruyter.com
2007•degruyter.com
Suburban sprawl transformed the political culture of the American South as much as the civil
rights movement did during the second half of the twentieth century. The Silent Majority
provides the first regionwide account of the suburbanization of the South from the
perspective of corporate leaders, political activists, and especially of the ordinary families
who lived in booming Sunbelt metropolises such as Atlanta, Charlotte, and
Richmond.Matthew Lassiter examines crucial battles over racial integration, court-ordered …
rights movement did during the second half of the twentieth century. The Silent Majority
provides the first regionwide account of the suburbanization of the South from the
perspective of corporate leaders, political activists, and especially of the ordinary families
who lived in booming Sunbelt metropolises such as Atlanta, Charlotte, and
Richmond.Matthew Lassiter examines crucial battles over racial integration, court-ordered …
Suburban sprawl transformed the political culture of the American South as much as the civil rights movement did during the second half of the twentieth century. The Silent Majority provides the first regionwide account of the suburbanization of the South from the perspective of corporate leaders, political activists, and especially of the ordinary families who lived in booming Sunbelt metropolises such as Atlanta, Charlotte, and Richmond.
Matthew Lassiter examines crucial battles over racial integration, court-ordered busing, and housing segregation to explain how the South moved from the era of Jim Crow fully into the mainstream of national currents. During the 1960s and 1970s, the grassroots mobilization of the suburban homeowners and school parents who embraced Richard Nixon's label of the Silent Majority reshaped southern and national politics and helped to set in motion the center-right shift that has dominated the United States ever since.
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