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REACTION TO THE BLACK CITY AS A CAUSE OF MODERN CONSERVATISM

A Case Study of Political Change in Ohio, 1932–2016.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2021

Jason Hackworth
Jason Hackworth*
Affiliation:
Department of Geography, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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Corresponding author: Professor Jason Hackworth, Department of Geography, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, M5S 3G3. E-mail: jason.hackworth@utoronto.ca
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Abstract

Social scientists in a variety of fields have long relied on economic-structuralist theories to understand the ascendance and hegemony of the modern Conservative Movement in the United States. In the materialist theory of political change (MTPC), structural crisis in the 1970s destabilized Keynesian-managerialism, and paved the way for neoliberalism. Key weaknesses of this approach include its relatively aspatial scope—comparatively less attention to the spatial variation of neoliberalism’s popularity—and its demotion of other elements of the Conservative Movement into a veritable super-structure of secondary movements. This paper offers a “racial amendment” to the MTPC, and an application to electoral geographies in the state of Ohio since 1932. This amendment synthesizes group threat theory, critical historiography, and Du Boisian theories of Whiteness to suggest that the growing influence of suburban conservatism is not reducible simply to class interest.

Keywords

Racial ResentmentW. E. B. Du BoisConservative MovementOhioMTPCKeynesian Managerialism
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State of the Art
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Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , Spring 2022 , pp. 85 - 105
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Hutchins Center for African and African American Research

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