Posted on 04/17/2018 6:35:45 AM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
During the final months of the U.S. race for the presidency, both major candidates claimed the “middle class” for their own, but what either meant by the term itself was left for voters to puzzle out.
Confusion about the middle class—specifically, white suburban families—is nothing new, says Matthew Lassiter, a Research Fellow and associate professor of history at the University of Michigan.
“For more than half a century, American political culture has celebrated white middle-class suburban families as the heart and soul of the nation, the hard-working, tax-paying heroes of Middle America, who safeguard traditional family values and maintain a utopian faith in the American Dream.”
For just as long, said Lassiter, “popular culture has taken a much darker view of what goes on behind the white picket fences and inside the private suburban homes—a pathological landscape of sexual repression and miserable marriages and dysfunctional children, the continuous collapse of the sunny American Dream into a dystopian nightmare.”
His current book project, The Suburban Crisis: The Pursuit and Defense of the American Dream, explores the history of American suburbs from World War II through the turn of the century.
“Examining the cultural politics of American suburbia is essential to explaining persistent patterns of white spatial privilege, urban-suburban inequalities, racialized policy distinctions in areas such as welfare and crime, and the hidden history/selective memory of the civil rights movement.”
“Examining the cultural politics of American suburbia is essential to explaining persistent patterns of white spatial privilege, urban-suburban inequalities, racialized policy distinctions in areas such as welfare and crime, and the hidden history/selective memory of the civil rights movement.”
In 500 words or less please explain why White genocide is good and the best way to accomplish it.
What the heck is “white spatial privilege?” Is that railing on people who don’t like to live stacked and packed?
“...white spatial privilege...”
That ended the reading right then and there.
“...white spatial privilege...”
That ended the reading right then and there.
I’m too young to have been part of the big move to suburbia, but, I can understand the appeal of the suburbs. Given the choice of living in crowded cities and small apartments, I can see how people were attracted to new developments, with detached houses, a back yard, clean new neighborhoods. By comparison you can see why so many left the city for the suburbs.
If you live in the city you have nowhere to put all your crap.
No matter how much cultural Marxists complain about suburbia and exurbia, big, liberal cities are dying, have been dying for 50 years and are still smelly, liberal sh#tholes populated by liberal sh#theads.
You forgot to mention that they depend on massive amounts of other people’s money to survive.
This article is 10 years old, why are you posting it now?
It is a sign of what the political conversation is in America—a decade later.
Didn't want to pay Philly's wage tax.
More house for my money.
I was done with the party-life.
It was very difficult to have nice things in Philly- within a week of buying a (used) 325 BMW, someone crushed the left rear qrt panel and is was parked on my street.
It was made very clear by the "leisure class", that you were are target.
Because this is true. White people of modest means, not the millionaires, are who mostly formed our unique and precious culture, and without these regular white people, America would not exist as we know it.
It must really rankle these proponents of white genocide to realize that those they want to kill are responsible for every single thing they have.
My wife and I couldn't live any other way. In fact, even our house on a 1/2 acre seems a bit cozy with our neighbors at times. At least we have lots of parking, both on and off street. And, with the older neighborhood we live in, no HOA to deal with, so my trailer collection is unmolested. :^)
A lot of people in the burbs don’t have anywhere to put their excess stuff either.
Garages full of boxes and stuff. Vehicles sit outside.
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