| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.2

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Book Review

White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism. By Kevin M. Kruse. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. xiv, 325 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-691-09260-5.)

An ambitious, well-researched, and interesting study, White Flight offers a provocative examination of the connections between race and conservative politics. While the backlash thesis for explaining the modern conservative movement has been with us for quite a while, Kevin M. Kruse has offered something fresh. In not trying to explain how working-class whites (often described as urban ethnics in many studies) devolved from New Deal liberals to Reagan conservatives, Kruse follows the tradition of Thomas Sugrue and Arnold Hirsch. He instead demonstrates the longstanding saliency of race in urban politics—even in Atlanta.

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