The conservative heartland : a political history of the postwar American Midwest / edited by Jon K. Lauck and Catherine McNicol Stock.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lauck, Jon, 1971- editor.

Stock, Catherine McNicol, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conservatism.

Middle West--Politics and government.

Middle West.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource ix, 390 pages) : illustrations, map

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2020]

Summary:

"Journalists, political pundits, and historians alike were shocked not just by the election of Donald Trump but also by the degree of support he won in states that Democrats had long presumed to be safe. Taken together, the seventeen essays in this collection detail the rise of Midwestern conservatism after World War II by identifying the specific policies, issues, leaders, geographic and demographic changes, controversies, and social causes that helped Midwestern conservative groups grow. It includes essays on nine different states, covering every decade of the postwar period, and looks at the conservative movement through the lenses of race, class, gender, and sexuality. Topics include the rural/urban divide, the development of a conservative intellectual program, environmentalism and its critics, responses to deindustrialization, regional support for Reagan, privatization and its consequences, mass incarceration, and the debates over same-sex marriage, abortion, and second wave feminism"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Finding the deeper conservatism of the American Midwest / Jon K. Lauck and Catherine McNicol Stock

The surprising new political battleground: the Midwest / Michael Barone

The emerging Republican Midwest? Forty years of political change in the Heartland / Kyle Kondik

Fly-to country: the Midwest as presidential battleground, 1946-2016 / Daniel R. Birdsong and Christopher J. Devine

Urban/rural frictions in the Midwest: the Chicago-downstate battle for legislative reapportionment in Illinois, 1953-1965 / Devin Hunter

Politics make for strange bedfellows: Republican feminists fight for abortion rights in Michigan, 1968-1982 / Ann Marie Wambeke

Combative conservatism at the "Berkeley of the Midwest": the American Spectator and Baby Boomer conservative intellectuals, 1967-1973 / Daniel Spillman

A new "state of superior": political fracture and antienvironmentalism in the Upper Midwest / Camden Burd

"The little guy for the little guy": 1969 Minneapolis and the white working-class revolt / Jeffrey Bloodworth

Not "fit to sleep with the hogs": James Rhodes, working-class populism, and the Rust Belt / William Russell Coil

"There exists a conservative veneer": Terry Branstad, Chuck Grassley, and the New Right's capture of Republican politics in Iowa, 1976-1986

From breweries to the Super-max : the making of carceral populism in metropolitan Milwaukee, 1950-2000 / Ian Toller-Clark

The decline of South Dakota Democrats and the fall of George McGovern, 1974-1980 / Jon K. Lauck

Local and regional countercurrents: Reagan Democrats and the politics of the Rust Belt, 1976-1988 / Daniel Rowe

Red rogues orbit blue stars: "astro-politics" in the Trump-era upper Midwest / Zachary Michael Jack

Mitch Daniels and conservative politics in the changing Midwest / A. James Fuller

Reading the Ralph: privatization in the "new" North Dakota, 1989-2018 / Catherine McNicol Stock

Culture wars in the Midwest: same-sex marriage votes in the states / Chad Kinsella.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7006-2932-7

OCLC:

1198612741