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Spooner, Denise Suzanne. "The Political Consequences of Experiences of Community: Iowa Migrants and Republican Conservatism in Southern California, 1946-1964," American Civilization Program, University of Pennsylvania, December 1992. Advisor: Murray G. Murphey (8, Political Science, 3)
For this dissertation, interviews were conducted with twenty-six migrants from Iowa who settled in southern California between 1946 and 1964 in order to explore the association between migration and growth of Republican conservatism in the region during the post-World War II years. Politics served as a symbolic medium through which concepts of community were expressed. Two contrasting definitions of community were detected: one exclusive, the other inclusive; both were rooted in interviewees’ experiences of community in Iowa. The political consequences of experiences of community were evidenced in the interviewees’ political identifications and behavior in relationship to key issues of the period.
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