TY  - BOOK
AU  - Geismer,Lily
TI  - Don't Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party 
T2  - Politics and Society in Modern America
SN  - 9780691157238
AV  - JK2316 .G34 2017
U1  - 324.27360904 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Liberalism
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Suburbs
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - 1972 election
KW  - American politics
KW  - Boston busing crisis
KW  - Cold War suburbs
KW  - Cold War
KW  - Democratic Party
KW  - Equal Rights Amendment
KW  - METCO
KW  - Massachusetts Miracle
KW  - Massachusetts exceptionalism
KW  - Massachusetts liberal
KW  - Massachusetts
KW  - Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity
KW  - Michael Dukakis
KW  - New Right
KW  - Reagan Revolution
KW  - Route 128 suburbs
KW  - Route 128
KW  - The Battle over the Suburbs
KW  - Vietnam War
KW  - affirmative action
KW  - affordable housing
KW  - antiwar movement
KW  - civil rights
KW  - class inequality
KW  - collective distinctiveness
KW  - defense spending
KW  - demographic changes
KW  - economic inequality
KW  - economic problems
KW  - electoral politics
KW  - environmental degradation
KW  - environmental inequality
KW  - environmental protection
KW  - environmentalism
KW  - equal opportunity
KW  - exclusivity
KW  - fair housing activism
KW  - fair housing movement
KW  - feminism
KW  - grassroots activism
KW  - high-tech corridor
KW  - high-tech growth
KW  - housing problems
KW  - housing
KW  - individual distinctiveness
KW  - interracial cooperation
KW  - knowledge professionals
KW  - liberal activism
KW  - liberal issues
KW  - liberalism
KW  - localism
KW  - meritocratic individualism
KW  - modern America
KW  - modern liberalism
KW  - multiracialism
KW  - national recession
KW  - national security
KW  - open space
KW  - political culture
KW  - political ideology
KW  - political tensions
KW  - postwar suburbanization
KW  - racial discrimination
KW  - racial inequality
KW  - residential inequality
KW  - school desegregation
KW  - school integration
KW  - second-wave feminism
KW  - segregation
KW  - social inequality
KW  - social justice
KW  - suburban development
KW  - suburban feminism
KW  - suburban liberal activism
KW  - suburban liberal activists
KW  - suburban liberalism
KW  - suburban liberals
KW  - suburban politics
KW  - suburbs
KW  - urbanгuburban cooperation
KW  - voluntary integration
KW  - women's equality
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations and Maps --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; Part I. Suburban Activism --; 1. No Ordinary Suburbs --; 2. Good Neighbors --; 3. A Multiracial World --; 4. Grappling with Growth --; 5. Political Action for Peace --; Part II. Massachusetts Liberals --; 6. A New Center --; 7. Open Suburbs vs. Open Space --; 8. Tightening the Belt --; 9. No One Home to Answer the Phone --; 10. From Taxachusetts to the Massachusetts Miracle --; Epilogue --; Notes --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Don't Blame Us traces the reorientation of modern liberalism and the Democratic Party away from their roots in labor union halls of northern cities to white-collar professionals in postindustrial high-tech suburbs, and casts new light on the importance of suburban liberalism in modern American political culture. Focusing on the suburbs along the high-tech corridor of Route 128 around Boston, Lily Geismer challenges conventional scholarly assessments of Massachusetts exceptionalism, the decline of liberalism, and suburban politics in the wake of the rise of the New Right and the Reagan Revolution in the 1970s and 1980s. Although only a small portion of the population, knowledge professionals in Massachusetts and elsewhere have come to wield tremendous political leverage and power. By probing the possibilities and limitations of these suburban liberals, this rich and nuanced account shows that-far from being an exception to national trends-the suburbs of Massachusetts offer a model for understanding national political realignment and suburban politics in the second half of the twentieth century
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400852420
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