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Author Stock, Catherine McNicol, author.

Title Nuclear country : the origins of the rural new right / Catherine McNicol Stock
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2020]
©2020

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 302 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Haney Foundation series
Haney Foundation series.
Contents Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. "Under God, the People Rule" -- Chapter 2. "Humanity Gone Mad" -- Chapter 3. "100% Against Communists" -- Chapter 4. "An Entire World in Khaki Brown and Olive Green" -- Chapter 5. Secrets and Lies -- Chapter 6. George McGovern's "Lost World" -- Chapter 7. Wounded Knee, 1973, and the War at Home -- Chapter 8. "The Companies You Keep" -- Appendix. Methodology: Total Population of Military Personnel and Dependents Stationed in the Dakotas, 1955-1995 -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary In Nuclear Country, Catherine McNicol Stock explores the question of why, between 1968 and 1992, most voters in the Dakotas abandoned their distinctive ideological heritage and came to embrace the New Right. Stock focuses on how this transformation coincided with the coming of the military and national security states to the countryside
Analysis American History
American Studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter, viewed February 11, 2021)
Subject Conservatism -- North Dakota
Conservatism -- South Dakota
Political culture -- North Dakota
Political culture -- South Dakota
Militarization -- Political aspects -- North Dakota
Militarization -- Political aspects -- South Dakota
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th century.
Conservatism
Political culture
North Dakota
South Dakota
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0812297385
9780812297386