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The Silent Majority

Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South

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The Class Politics of Suburban Racism

The history of suburbanite reactions to school integration in Atlanta and Charlotte reveals the class power underpinning both racism and the demolition of the New Deal order. This episode covers suburbanite resistance to school busing, why Nixon's Silent Majority was the product of a suburban strategy rather than a Southern one, and why the class base of all politics matters.