The Silent Majority
Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10239672 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Damon Freeman (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 73 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 949 |
| Publication date | 2007-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South, Matthew D Lassiter, 2007 |
| Venue | The Journal of Southern History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-4642 • E-ISSN: 2325-6893 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/27649633 |
| OpenAlex | W1546325158 |
| Language | EN |
List of Illustrations vii List of Tables ix Acknowledgments xi Abbreviations xv Introduction 1 Part I: The Triumph of Moderation 21 Chapter 1: The Divided South 23 Chapter 2: HOPE in the New South 44 Chapter 3: The Open-Schools Movement 69 Chapter 4: The Strange Career of Atlanta Exceptionalism 94 Part II: The Revolt of the Center 119 Chapter 5: The Charlotte Way 121 Chapter 6: Suburban Populism 148 Chapter 7: Neighborhood Politics 175 Chapter 8: Class Fairness and Racial Stability 198 Part III: Suburban Strategies 223 Chapter 9: The Suburbanization of Southern Politics 225 Chapter 10: The Failure of the Southern Strategy 251 Chapter 11: Metropolitan Divergence 276 Chapter 12: Regional Convergence 301 Epilogue 324 Notes 331 Index 365
Genealogy · Geography · Political science · Politics · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
Haiti and the Heavens
Cold War Transgressions
The Limited Local Impacts of Ethnic and Racial Diversity
After It’s Too Late
Competing for Cultural Authority
Silent citizens
The Democratic Party in the Age of Obama
Entitled to Addiction
Theories of Parties
Party Coalitions in the US Congress
Activists, Influence, and Representation in American Elections
The Mobilization and Influence of Business Interests
What a Difference Twenty-Five Years Makes
Urban Interest Groups
American Political Parties
Moral and Immoral Whiteness in Immigration Politics
Managing Inequality
American Jews and the Ambivalence of Middle-Classness
Rush Limbaugh and the Problem of the Color Line
Bridging the Gap between Urban, Suburban, and Educational History
Folkways and Stateways
Why Did the Democrats Lose the South? Bringing New Data to an Old Debate
Under the Radar”
The Corporate Campaign against Homelessness
Letters to the Essex County Penitentiary
We Were Just Unwanted
The Battle of Whitman Park
Remembering the Past and Contesting the Future of School Desegregation in Louisville, Kentucky, 1975–2012
Locating the Civil Rights Movement
Unequal Retreats
Taxation as tyranny
Reform in the IC
The Drug Wars in America, 1940–1973
Rethinking the 1950s
Racial and Ethnic Politics in American Suburbs
Sport, race, et politique
Drawn from Alice in Wonderland
Further into the Right
The Development of Power is the Main Business of the School
"Family Values" and the Formation of a Christian Right Agenda
Who Favors Magnets and Who Favors Charters? Political Ideology, Social Purpose Politics, and School Choice in the Upper South
Remembering Racial Progress, Forgetting White Resistance
Apology and Redress
The Legitimacy of Protest
Why are professors liberal
Mobilizing ethnic competition
The Political Economy of High Speed Rail in the United States
Keeping Children Safe is Good Business
Just a Bunch of Agitators
God, Country, and Anita Bryant
Political Articulation
Not Just White Soccer Moms
Resisting Amnesia
The Not-So-New South Suburbs
The Place of Race in Conservative and Far-right Movements
Racial linked fate and gender in U.S. politics
American political development and black lives matter in the age of incarceration
The American Single-Family Home
A multilevel analysis of private-vehicle evacuation clearance times along the US Gulf Coast
Revisiting the rightward turn
Nixon’s marijuana problem
The emergence of race in national welfare politics
Well, I’m not moving”
Who shot FAP? The Nixon welfare plan and the transformation of American politics
All in the family
Fighting the “hurricane winds” of abortion liberalization
Spatializing critical education
The Philadelphia Negroand the Canon of Classical Urban Theory
White Justifications for School Closings in Prince Edward County, Virginia, 1959-1964
Rethinking Middle America
Chaps and Scowls”
Populism and the American Party System
Trump
Whitewashing Diversity
Revival on the Right
Is it in the interest of the consumer to pay taxes? Transatlantic differences in postwar approaches to public consumption
East Nashville skyline
On the Noose at Knott's Scary Farm
Toward the Resegregation of Southern Schools
African Americans and the Struggle for Opportunity in Florida Public Higher Education, 1947-1977
The Private School Pivot
Trouble in Suburbia
From Open Enrollment to Controlled Choice
Equalizing Resources vs. Retaining Black Political Power
Gateways to the West, Part II
Blurring Public and Private
The Republican Party and the Long, Hot Summer of 1967 in the United States
Social Movements and Radicalism in Post-War American History
What Have You Done for Me Lately? Educational Research and Urban Schools
The Politics of Corporate Social Responsibility in American Health Care and Home Loans
Political Polarization as a Social Movement Outcome
Untimely Subjects
"Whose "Sense of Place
Jobs and Justice
Politicized Places
Between Recognition and Resentment
Race and Authoritarianism in American Politics
What Political Science Can Learn from the New Political History
Undoing the Oikos , Awakening Resistance? Neoliberalism, Democracy, and the Environment in 'Trump Country
Reflections on Regime Politics
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |