The Silent Majority : : Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South / / Matthew D. Lassiter.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Lassiter, Matthew D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Politics and Society in Modern America ; 94
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.) :; 23 halftones. 1 line illus. 4 tables. 8 maps.

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, p...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• List of Tables
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Part I. The Triumph of Moderation
• Chapter 1. The Divided South
• Chapter 2. HOPE in the New South
• Chapter 3. The Open-Schools Movement
• Chapter 4. The Strange Career of Atlanta Exceptionalism
• Part II. The Revolt of the Center
• Chapter 5. The "Charlotte Way"
• Chapter 6. Suburban Populism
• Chapter 7. Neighborhood Politics
• Chapter 8. Class Fairness and Racial Stability
• Part III. Suburban Strategies
• Chapter 9. The Suburbanization of Southern Politics
• Chapter 10. The Failure of the Southern Strategy
• Chapter 11. Metropolitan Divergence
• Chapter 12. Regional Convergence
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Index