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The Politics of Space, Place, and Region in the American South and Southwest

Symposium organizers and book editors:
Michelle Nickerson, University of Texas at Dallas
Darren Dochuk, Purdue University

Panel Moderators:
Donald A. Hicks, University of Texas at Dallas and Jeff Roche, College of Wooster

Presenters and Paper Titles:

Carl Abbott,
Portland State University
"Real Estate and Race:  Imagining the Second Circuit of Capital in Sunbelt Cities"

Shana Bernstein, Southwestern University
"From the Southwest to the Nation:  Interracial Civil Rights Activism in Postwar Los Angeles"

Nathan Connolly, Johns Hopkins University
" Sunshine State, Sunbelt Hate:  Urban Renewal as Civil Rights in Greater Miami"

Joe Crespino, Emory University
"Strom Thurmond’s Sunbelt: Rethinking Regional Politics and the Right in Cold War America”

Darren Grem, University of Georgia
"Marketplace Missionaries: S. Truett Cathy, Chick fil-A, and the Sunbelt South"

Daniel Hosang, University of Oregon
"Remaking Liberalism in the Sunbelt West: California’s 1964 Fair Housing Ballot Measure and the Politics of Racial Innocence"

Volker Janssen, California State University, Fullerton
"Sunbelt Lock-Up: Where the Suburbs Met the Super-Max"

Laresh Jayasanker, University of Texas at Austin
"Sameness in Diversity: Mexican Food, Globalization, and the Sunbelt"

Lyman Kellstedt, Wheaton College and Jim Guth, Furman University
"Religion and Political Behavior in the Sunbelt"

Matt Lassiter, University of Michigan
  "Big Government and Family Values: Political Culture in the Metropolitan Sunbelt"

Sylvia Manzano, Texas A & M University
"Latinos in the Sunbelt: The Political Implications of Demographic Change"

Andrew Needham, New York University
 "Metropolitan Power: Developing the Southwestern Periphery"

Co-sponsored by
The William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University 
Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West