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Sunbelt Capitalism - Phoenix and the Transformation of American Politics (Paperback)
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Sunbelt Capitalism - Phoenix and the Transformation of American Politics (Paperback)
Series: Politics and Culture in Modern America
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Few Sunbelt cities burned brighter or contributed more to the
conservative movement than Phoenix. In 1910, eleven thousand people
called Phoenix home; now, over four million reside in this
metropolitan region. In Sunbelt Capitalism, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
tells the story of the city's expansion and its impact on the
nation. The dramatic growth of Phoenix speaks not only to the
character and history of the Sunbelt but also to the evolution in
American capitalism that sustained it. In the 1930s, Barry
Goldwater and other members of the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce
feared the influence of New Deal planners, small businessmen, and
Arizona trade unionists. While Phoenix's business elite detested
liberal policies, they were not hostile to government action per
se. Goldwater and his contemporaries instead experimented with
statecraft now deemed neoliberal. They embraced politics, policy,
and federal funding to fashion a favorable "business climate,"
which relied on disenfranchising voters, weakening unions,
repealing regulations, and shifting the tax burden onto homeowners
and consumers. These efforts allied them with executives at the
helm of the modern conservative movement, whose success partially
hinged on relocating factories from the Steelbelt to the kind of
free-enterprise oasis that Phoenix represented. But the city did
not sprawl in a vacuum. All Sunbelt boosters used the same
incentives to compete at a fever pitch for investment, and the
resulting drain of jobs and capital from the industrial core forced
Midwesterners and Northeasterners into the brawl. Eventually this
"Second War Between the States" reoriented American politics toward
the principle that the government and the citizenry should be
working in the interest of business.
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