Incisive, yet fair, this represents an important standing of how antimodernist ideologies continue to thrive." - Publishers Weekly McGirr's book provides a valuable scholarly analysis of the demographics, culture, and history that made the county distinctively conservative." -Russell Baker, New York Review of Books McGirr's setting is California's Orange County, which became America's most celebrated conservative stronghold in the 1960s. " Suburban Warriors affords a rare picture of the grass-roots process actually working at a specific site. Her original contribution to the social history of politics broadens-and often upsets-our understanding of the deep and tenacious roots of popular conservatism in America. Through this history, she traces the evolution of the New Right from a virulent anticommunist, anti-establishment fringe to a broad national movement nourished by evangelical Protestantism. While introducing these rank-and-file activists, McGirr chronicles Orange County’s rise from “nut country” to political vanguard. She describes how these suburban pioneers created new political and social philosophies anchored in a fusion of Christian fundamentalism, xenophobic nationalism, and western libertarianism. Lisa McGirr shows that their movement was not one of marginal people suffering from status anxiety, but rather one formed by successful entrepreneurial types with modern lifestyles and bright futures.
We learn what motivated them and how they interpreted their political activity. Suburban Warriors introduces us to these people: women hosting coffee klatches for Barry Goldwater in their tract houses members of anticommunist reading groups organizing against sex education pro-life Democrats gradually drawn into conservative circles and new arrivals finding work in defense companies and a sense of community in Orange County’s mushrooming evangelical churches. Yet, in Utt’s home district of Orange County, thousands of middle-class suburbanites proceeded to organize a powerful conservative movement that would land Ronald Reagan in the White House and redefine the spectrum of acceptable politics into the next century. Utt that “barefooted Africans” were training in Georgia to help the United Nations take over the country. Mainstream America snickered at warnings by California Congressman James B.
The media lampooned John Birchers’s accusations that Dwight Eisenhower was a communist puppet. McCarthyism was on the run, and movements on the political left were grabbing headlines.
In the early 1960s, American conservatives seemed to have fallen on hard times.
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