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The silent majority : suburban politics in the Sunbelt South
- Title
- The silent majority : suburban politics in the Sunbelt South / Matthew D. Lassiter.
- Author
- Lassiter, Matthew D., 1970-
- Publication
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2006], ©2006.
- Supplementary Content
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- Description
- xiii, 390 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "In The Silent Majority, Matthew Lassiter provides the first regionwide account of the suburbanization of the South from the perpsective of corporate leaders, political activists, and especially of ordinary families who lived in booming Sunbelt metropolises such as Atlanta, Charlotte, and Richmond. This book 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." "The Silent Majority traces the emergence of a "color-blind" ideology in the white middle-class suburbs that defended residential segregation and neighborhood schools as the natural outcomes of market forces and individual meritocracy rather than the unconstitutional products of discriminatory public policies. Lassiter rejects the framework of southern distinctiveness and the conventional wisdom that Republican growth in the region resulted primarily from a top-down, race-driven "Southern Strategy."" "The Silent Majority is critical reading for those interested in urban and suburban studies, political and social history, the civil rights movement, public policy, and the intersection of race and class in modern America."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Politics and society in twentieth-century America
- Uniform Title
- Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-364) and index.
- Contents
- Ch. 1. The divided south -- Ch. 2. HOPE in the new south -- Ch. 3. The open-schools movement -- Ch. 4. The strange career of Atlanta exceptionalism -- Ch. 5. The "Charlotte way" -- Ch. 6. Suburban populism -- Ch. 7. Neighborhood politics -- Ch. 8. Class fairness and racial stability -- Ch. 9. The suburbanization of southern politics -- Ch. 10. The failure of the southern strategy -- Ch. 11. Metropolitan divergence -- Ch. 12. Regional convergence.
- ISBN
- 0691092559 (alk. paper)
- 9780691092553 (alk. paper)
- 9780691133898 (hbk.)
- 0691133891 (hbk.)
- LCCN
- 2005040568
- OCLC
- ocm57751482
- 57751482
- SCSB-5218833
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries