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What It's Like To Be A Radical Conservative, Stephanie K. Adamczak
What It's Like To Be A Radical Conservative, Stephanie K. Adamczak
SURGE
“What is your major?”
“Environmental Science.”
The snarky retort, “Don’t go joining GreenPeace now, you’re becoming a radical.”
I know there are many uses of the word “radical,” but in this context, I know that it is not meant as a compliment. Because I study environmental science and global climate change, this person associates me with radicals – those utilizing extreme methods to bring about extreme changes. [excerpt]
Feet In The South, Eyes To The West: Fort Smith Enters The Sunbelt, Adam Morrison Carson
Feet In The South, Eyes To The West: Fort Smith Enters The Sunbelt, Adam Morrison Carson
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This paper examines the political realignment of Fort Smith, Arkansas and argues that the standard historiographical argument about the process of realignment does not explain what occurred in this city. Much of the historiography of political realignment currently revolves around the belief in a white backlash against the federal government and the national Democratic Party for their support of African American civil rights. Though historians have moved toward a "suburban synthesis" that downplays the backlash thesis, historians still argues that many white southerners moved to the suburbs to avoid integration.
I argue that this process did not occur in the …