Introduction
Finding the Deeper Conservatism of the American Midwest, Jon K. Lauck and Catherine McNicol Stock
1. The Surprising New Political Battleground
The Midwest, Michael Barone
2. The Emerging Republican Midwest?
Forty Years of Political Change in the Heartland, Kyle Kondik
3. Fly-To Country
The Midwest as Presidential Battleground, 1946-2016, Daniel R. Birdsong and Christopher J. Devine
4. Urban/Rural Frictions in the Midwest
The Chicago-Downstate Battle for Legislative Reapportionment in Illinois, 1953-1965, Devin Hunter
5. Politics Makes for Strange Bedfellows
Republican Feminists Fight for Abortion Rights in Michigan, 1968-1982, Ann Marie Wambeke
6. Combative Conservatism at the “Berkeley of the Midwest”
The American Spectator and Baby Boomer Conservative Intellectuals, 1967-1973, Daniel Spillman
7. A New “State of Superior”
Political Fracture and Antienvironmentalism in the Upper Midwest, Camden Burd
8. “The Little Guy for the Little Guy”
1969 Minneapolis and the White Working-Class Revolt, Jeffrey Bloodworth
9. Not ̶Fit to Sleep with the Hogs”
James Rhodes, Working-Class Populism, and the Rust Belt, William Russell Coil
10. “There Exists a Conservative Veneer"
Terry Branstad, Chuck Grassley, and the New Right’s Capture of Republican Politics in Iowa, 1976-1986, Cory Haala
11. From Breweries to the Super-Max
The Making of Carceral Populism in Metropolitan Milwaukee, 1950-2000, Ian Toller-Clark
12. The Decline of South Dakota Democrats and the Fall of George McGovern, 1974-1980, Jon K. Lauck
13. Local and Regional Countercurrents
Reagan Democrats and the Politics of the Rust Belt, 1976-1980, Daniel Rowe
14. Red Rogues Orbit Blue Stars
“Astro-Politics” in the Trump-Era Upper Midwest, Zachary Michael Jack
15. Mitch Daniels and Conservative Politics in the Changing Midwest, A. James Fuller
16. Reading the Ralph
Privatization in the “New” North Dakota, 1989-2018, Catherine McNicol Stock
17. Culture Wars in the Midwest
Same-Sex Marriage Votes in the States, Chad Kinsella
About the Contributors
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