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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