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Summary Of Mcgirr's Suburban Warriors

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Suburban Warriors is about the conservative social movement and the New Right’s rising popularity taking place in Orange County, California from 1945-1980. McGirr’s focuses on the conservative social movement in Orange County because it is generally acknowledged by contemporaries to be the most conservative area of the United States. She argues that the conservative and New Right members are not retrogressive radicals but ordinary men and women who created a grassroots conservative movement to focus on modernity and in moral and traditional values. McGirr explains the people in this movement are usually white middle-class people who are long-term residents of Orange County or in-migrants where the majority work in high-tech sector jobs. I

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