White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism

(Part of the Politics and Society in Modern America Series)

by Kevin M. Kruse

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The forgotten story of how southern white supremacy and resistance to desegregation helped give birth to the modern conservative movement

During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "The City Too Busy to Hate," a rare place in the South where the races lived and thrived together. Over the course of the 1960s and 1970s, however, so many whites fled the city for the suburbs that Atlanta earned a new nickname: "The City...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0691133867

ISBN13:9780691133867

Release Date:July 2007

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:352 Pages

Weight:1.14 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.3" x 9.1"

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20th Century Conservatism & Liberalism Education & Reference History Minority Studies Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Political Ideologies Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences

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