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The Conservative Heartland - A Political History of the Postwar American Midwest (Hardcover)
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The Conservative Heartland - A Political History of the Postwar American Midwest (Hardcover)
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In the wake of the 2016 presidential election there was widespread
shock that the Midwest, the Democrats' so-called blue wall, had
been so effectively breached by Donald Trump. But the blue wall, as
The Conservative Heartland makes clear, was never quite as secure
as so many observers assumed. A deep look at the Midwest's history
of conservative politics, this timely volume reveals how
conservative victories in state houses, legislatures, and national
elections in the early twenty-first century, far from coming out of
nowhere, in fact had extensive roots across decades of political
organization in the region. Focusing on nine states, from Iowa and
the Dakotas to Indiana and Ohio, the essays in this collection
detail the rise of midwestern conservatism after World War II - a
trend that coincided with the transformation of the prewar
Republican Party into the New Right. This transformation, the
authors contend, involved the Midwest and the Sunbelt states.
Through the lenses of race, class, gender, and sexuality, their
essays explore the development of midwestern conservative politics
in light of deindustrialization, environmentalism, second wave
feminism, mass incarceration, privatization, and debates over
same-sex marriage and abortion, among other issues. Together these
essays map the region's complex patchwork of viable rural and urban
areas, variously subject to a wide array of conflicting interests
and concerns; the perspective they provide, at once broad and
in-depth, offers unique historical insight into the Midwest's
political complexity - and its status as the last real competitive
battleground in presidential elections.
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