White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism

by Kevin M. Kruse

Book Overview

The forgotten story of how southern white supremacy and resistance to desegregation helped give birth to the modern conservative movement

During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "The City Too Busy to Hate," a rare place in the South where the races lived and thrived together. Over the course of the 1960s and 1970s, however, so many whites fled the city for the suburbs that Atlanta earned a new nickname: "The City...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691133867
• ISBN13: 9780691133867
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.1"