Beyond core and periphery: the myth of regional political-economic restructuring and sectionalism in contemporary American politics

The central thesis of this paper is that the geographical restructuring of the United States economy and polity of the past 20 years has taken a localized form. Consequently, thinking in terms of interregional competition and restructuring, such as evidenced by much of the social science literature,...

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Published in:Political Geography Quarterly 1988-04, Vol.7 (2), p.127-139
Main Author: Agnew, John A.
Format: Article
Language:English
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ELECTORAL SYSTEM
Human geography
Political and economic geography
POLITICAL AND POWER PROCESS
POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY
Politics
Regionalism
REGIONALISM, REGIONAL COOPERATION
United States
UNITED STATES, 1945 TO PRESENT
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Summary:The central thesis of this paper is that the geographical restructuring of the United States economy and polity of the past 20 years has taken a localized form. Consequently, thinking in terms of interregional competition and restructuring, such as evidenced by much of the social science literature, is intellectually and politically misleading. The concepts of ‘core’ and ‘periphery’ or ‘sunbelt’ and ‘snowbelt’ and associated claims for a continuing or revived political sectionalism will no longer bear the intellectual traffic that has been imposed upon them.
ISSN:0260-9827
0962-6298
DOI:10.1016/0260-9827(88)90024-9