American politics in the postwar sunbelt : conservative growth in a battleground region /

American politics in the postwar sunbelt : conservative growth in a battleground region /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Cunningham, Sean P., author.
Imprint:	NewYork, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Description:	xii, 276 pages ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Cambridge essential histories Cambridge essential histories.
Subject:	Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) Conservatism -- Sunbelt States. Conservatism. Politics and government Sunbelt States -- Politics and government. United States -- Politics and government. United States. United States -- Sunbelt States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10073679

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ISBN:	9781107024526 (hardback) 1107024528 (hardback) 9781107672345 (paperback) 1107672341 (paperback)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

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