From Bible Belt to Sunbelt Plain Folk Religion Grassroots Politics and the Rise of Evangeli

Name: From Bible Belt to Sunbelt Plain Folk Religion Grassroots Politics and the Rise of Evangeli
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ISBN: 9780393339048

ISBN-10: 0393339041

ISBN-13: 9780393339048

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Authors: Darren Dochuk

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From Bible Belt to Sun Belt tells the dramatic and largely unknown story of plain-folk religious migrants: hardworking men and women from Oklahoma, Texas, and Arkansas who fled the Depression and came to California for military jobs during World War II. Investigating this fiercely pious community at a grassroots level, Darren Dochuk uses the stories of religious leaders, including Billy Graham, as well as many colorful, lesser-known figures to explain how evangelicals organized a powerful political machine. This machine made its mark with Barry Goldwater, inspired Richard Nixon’s Southern Solution, and achieved its greatest triumph with the victories of Ronald Reagan. Based on entirely new…

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List price: $18.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/14/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 576
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.20" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English

Darren Dochuk is a professor of history at Purdue University and a former Fellow at Princeton University. His writing has appeared in the Washington Post and other venues. He lives in West Lafayette, Indiana.



Map of Southern California, CIRCA 1980


Introduction: "At Home with the Angels"



Southern Errand



Plain Folk



Preachers



Entrepreneurs



Southern Problem



Labor Wars



New Allies



Southern Solutions



Plain-Folk Preaching Mainstreamed



The New Gospel of Wealth



Declaration of Independence



Sentinels of Freedom



Southern Strategies



Creative Society



Jesus People



Moral Majority



Born Again


Epilogue: Wilderness Again


Acknowledgments


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Photograph Credits


Index