American Politics in the Postwar Sunbelt - Conservative Growth in a Battleground Region

"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 andnever foreordained. The history of American politics in the postwar Sunbelt resembles a rollercoaster of partisan and ideological adaptation and transformation"--

Product details

• Authors: Sean Cunningham, Sean P. Cunningham, Sean P. (Texas Tech University) Cunningham, Cunningham Sean P.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2014
• EAN: 9781107024526
• ISBN: 978-1-107-02452-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Cambridge Essential Histories; Cambridge Essential Histories
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / General, Politics & government, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, Politics and government, History of the Americas