Suburban-style conservative trends originated in 1950s cities, not later suburbs

Evidence

While this scholarship generally assumed that such conservative trends emerged from an established suburban Sunbelt in the late 1970s and 1980s, this book argues, to the contrary, that those trends were already apparent before the rise of the suburbs, inside cities such as Atlanta, as early as the 1950s. — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 34

Categorization

• XREF: Reverses the assumed causal order — urban origin before suburban form — key to the reader’s causal reconstruction. — connects to: Massive resistance birthed the New Right’s future-oriented conservative politics — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 309