 | Sunbelt Rising: The Politics of Space, Place, and Region Subjects: Sunbelt States -- Politics and government -- 20th century; Political culture -- Subeslt States; Regionalism -- Sunbelt States; Sunbelt States -- Economic conditions -- 20th century; Sunbelt States -- Race relations -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th; This volume examines patterns of growth, government organization, and cultural representation that created a new region across the nation's southern rim following World War II. Essays explain how ideology and political economy restructured space within the Sunbelt, making the landscape and lives of its inhabitants more uniformly metropolitan. Michelle Nickerson is Associate Professor of History at Loyola University Chicago. Darren Dochuk is Associate Professor of History at the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics of Washington University in St. Louis. |
