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White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism (Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America) (1st Edition) by Kevin Michael Kruse, Gary Gerstle, Julian Zelizer (Series Editor), Linda Gordon (Series Editor), William Chafe (Series Editor) Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2007 ISBN-10: 0-691-13386-7 / 0691133867 ISBN-13: 978-0-691-13386-7 / 9780691133867 During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "The City Too Busy to Hate," a rare place in the South where the races lived and thrived together. Over the course of the 1960s and 1970s, however, so many whites fled the city for the suburbs that Atlanta earned a new nickname: "The City Too |