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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Kurt Schuparra. Triumph of the Right: The Rise of the California Conservative Movement, 1945–1966. (The Right Wing in America.) Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe. 1998. Pp. xxiv, 221. $29.95.

American historians have often relegated the right to the margins of United States political history and portrayed it as a movement of dour, maladjusted reactionaries who want to retreat to some nonexistent golden age. In his study of California elections from 1958 through 1966, Kurt Schuparra tests this view in the conservative heartland, focusing on southern California. 1

Although California is often seen as a liberal stronghold, Republican governors have controlled the state almost continuously since 1910. Republican moderates like Earl Warren devised a flexible program that appealed to many Democratic voters, but by the mid-1950s this pragmatic centrism struck many conservatives as a sellout to the left. Conservative Republicans condemned Dwight D. Eisenhower's "modern Republicanism" as warmed-over New Dealism. 2

The conservative Republicans of Orange County were especially restive. It was the fastest-growing county in the United States, flooded by people fleeing the urban ills of Los Angeles. It was a white middle-class stronghold; only 0.6 percent of the citizenry were African American. Residents prized their frontier self-image as rugged individualists, even as urbanization and industrialization were destroying their rural lifestyle. They attacked government spending while the county accepted huge federal transportation and water subsidies, and a third of its residents held jobs in the federally funded defense and aerospace industries. . . .

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