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001 2013044947
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005 20141118084624.0
008 140327s2014 nyua 000 0 eng
010 $a 2013044947
020 $a9781107024526 (hardback)
020 $a9781107672345
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050 00 $aJS437$b.C86 2014
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100 1 $aCunningham, Sean P.
245 10 $aAmerican politics in the postwar sunbelt :$bconservative growth in a battleground region /$cSean P. Cunningham.
264 1 $aNewYork, NY :$bCambridge University Press,$c2014.
300 $axii, 276 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aCambridge essential histories
520 $a"his book analyzes the political culture of the American Sunbelt since the end of World War II. It highlights and explains the Sunbelt's emergence during the second half of the twentieth century as the undisputed geographic epicenter for conservative Republican power in the United States. However, the book also investigates the ongoing nature of political contestation within the postwar Sunbelt, often highlighting the underappreciated persistence of liberal and progressive influences across the region. Sean P. Cunningham argues that the conservative Republican ascendancy that so many have identified as almost synonymous with the rise of the postwar American Sunbelt was hardly an easy, unobstructed victory march. Rather, it was consistently challenged and never foreordained. The history of American politics in the postwar Sunbelt resembles a rollercoaster of partisan and ideological adaptation and transformation"--$cProvided by publisher.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: Introduction: what is the Sunbelt... and why is it important? 1. Convergence, metropolitanization, and anticommunism; 2. Race, rights, and the liberal consensus; 3. Wars against liberalism; 4. Southern, suburban, and Sunbelt strategies; 5. Mobilizing the religious right in the politicized 'Bible Belt'; 6. Reagan's Sunbelt, Reagan's America; 7. Shades of red, shades of blue; Epilogue. Sunbelt politics in the twenty-first century.
651 0 $aSunbelt States$xPolitics and government.
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government.
650 0 $aConservatism$zSunbelt States.
610 20 $aRepublican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
650 7 $aHISTORY / United States / General.$2bisacsh
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/24526/cover/9781107024526.jpg
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1501/2013044947-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1501/2013044947-d.html
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1501/2013044947-t.html