Sunbelt rising: the politics of place, space, and region

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Introduction I. CONSTRUCTING REGION Chapter 1. Sunbelt Boosterism: Industrial Recruitment, Economic Development, and Growth Politics in the Developing Sunbelt -Elizabeth Tandy Shermer Chapter 2. Strom Thurmond's Sunbelt: Rethinking Regional Politics and the Rise of the Right -Joseph Crespino Chapter 3. Big Government and Family Values: Political Culture in the Metropolitan Sunbelt -Matthew D. Lassiter Chapter 4. Religion and Political Behavior in the Sunbelt -Lyman A. Kellstedt and James L. Guth II. CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE SUNBELT Chapter 5. From the Southwest to the Nation: Interracial Civil Rights Activism in Los Angeles -Shana Bernstein Chapter 6. Sunbelt Civil Rights: Urban Renewal and the Follies of Desegregation in Greater Miami -N. D. B. Connolly Chapter 7. Racial Liberalism and the Rise of the Sunbelt West: The Defeat of Fair Housing on the 1964 California Ballot -Daniel Martinez HoSang III. CONTINGENT PLACES Chapter 8. Sunbelt Lock-Up: Where the Suburbs Met the Super-Max -Volker Janssen Chapter 9. Sunbelt Imperialism: Boosters, Navajos, and Energy Development in the Metropolitan Southwest -Andrew Needham Chapter 10. Real Estate and Race: Imagining the Second Circuit of Capital in Sunbelt Cities -Carl Abbott PART IV. THE GLOBAL SUNBELT Chapter 11. The Marketplace Missions of S. Truett Cathy, Chick-fil-A, and the Sunbelt South -Darren E. Grem Chapter 12. Tortilla Politics: Mexican Food, Globalization, and the Sunbelt -Laresh Jayasanker Chapter 13. Latinos in the Sunbelt: Political Implications of Demographic Change -Sylvia Manzano Notes List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments