HST 202 CH 24
Chapter 24
A Changing Economy: The Cold War fueled industrial production and promoted a redistribution of the nation's population and economic resources. Since the 1950s, the American economy has shifted away from manufacturing. The center of gravity of American farming shifted decisively to the West, especially to California.
The TV World: Television replaced newspapers as the most common source of information about public events and provided Americans of all regions and backgrounds with a common cultural experience. TV avoided controversy and projected a bland image of middle-class life. Television also became the most effective advertising medium ever invented.
A Segregated Landscape: The suburbs remained segregated communities. During the postwar suburban boom, federal agencies continued to insure mortgages that barred resale of houses to nonwhites, thereby financing housing segregation. Under programs of "urban renewal," cities demolished poor neighborhoods in city centers that occupied potentially valuable real estate.
The Divided Society: Suburbanization hardened the racial lines of division in American life. Between 1950 and 1970, about 7 million white Americans left cities for the suburbs. The process of racial exclusion became self-reinforcing. Suburban home ownership long remained a white entitlement.
The Libertarian Conservatives and New Conservatives: To libertarian conservatives, freedom meant individual autonomy, limited government, and unregulated capitalism. These ideas had great appeal in the rapidly growing South and West. The new conservatism became increasingly prominent in the 1950s. The new conservatives insisted that toleration of difference offered no substitute for the search for absolute truth. They understood freedom as first and foremost a moral condition.
The Libertarian Conservatives and New Conservatives: To libertarian conservatives, freedom meant individual autonomy, limited government, and unregulated capitalism. These
A Changing Economy: The Cold War fueled industrial production and promoted a redistribution of the nation's population and economic resources. Since the 1950s, the American economy has shifted away from manufacturing. The center of gravity of American farming shifted decisively to the West, especially to California.
The TV World: Television replaced newspapers as the most common source of information about public events and provided Americans of all regions and backgrounds with a common cultural experience. TV avoided controversy and projected a bland image of middle-class life. Television also became the most effective advertising medium ever invented.
A Segregated Landscape: The suburbs remained segregated communities. During the postwar suburban boom, federal agencies continued to insure mortgages that barred resale of houses to nonwhites, thereby financing housing segregation. Under programs of "urban renewal," cities demolished poor neighborhoods in city centers that occupied potentially valuable real estate.
The Divided Society: Suburbanization hardened the racial lines of division in American life. Between 1950 and 1970, about 7 million white Americans left cities for the suburbs. The process of racial exclusion became self-reinforcing. Suburban home ownership long remained a white entitlement.
The Libertarian Conservatives and New Conservatives: To libertarian conservatives, freedom meant individual autonomy, limited government, and unregulated capitalism. These ideas had great appeal in the rapidly growing South and West. The new conservatism became increasingly prominent in the 1950s. The new conservatives insisted that toleration of difference offered no substitute for the search for absolute truth. They understood freedom as first and foremost a moral condition.
The Libertarian Conservatives and New Conservatives: To libertarian conservatives, freedom meant individual autonomy, limited government, and unregulated capitalism. These