Michael Kazin
Michael Kazin
Michael Kazinis a U.S. historian and professor at Georgetown University. He is co-editor of Dissent magazine...
air belt industrial region sleepy south sun
The Sun Belt would not have become such a dynamic, urban, industrial region if it hadn't been for air conditioning. Before 1945, before the 1950s, the South was a pretty sleepy area, industrially.
rhetoric war
It's a war only because we've got the rhetoric of wartime.
became began choose jobs majority manual middle
Once the majority of Americans became middle class, once their jobs ceased to be manual jobs, then they began to look around and choose to live in a place, in part, because of the weather.