| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.5

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Kevin M. Kruse. White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism. (Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America.) Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. 2005. Pp. xiv, 325. $35.00.

Kevin Kruse's brilliant analysis of race, class, and politics documents the transformation in belief and political strategy employed by white southerners who resisted the black struggle for democracy and integration. The heat caused by the friction of the modern civil rights movement in the South led whites to set aside the fiery rhetoric of George Wallace and the burning cross of the Ku Klux Klan and adopt the language of rights—first collective and ultimately individual—in their continuous effort to maintain segregation and white supremacy. White rights talk defended segregation by evoking the rights of freedom of association, of local control, and from court intervention, and what began as white resistance to the black freedom struggle morphed into a reactionary challenge to the power of the federal government. In this moment, argues Kruse, modern conservatism was born.

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