Growth and the Suburbs
Four causes of growth
- A burgeoning private sector, federal spending, the baby boom, and technological developments helped spur economic growth.
- Four causes, and federal spending sits beside a burgeoning private sector without contradiction.
- The baby boom is a demographic cause of an economic effect — more people means more demand as well as more workers.
Select all four causes of economic growth.
Federal spending sits beside the private sector without contradiction.
Mobility moved people twice
- As higher education opportunities and new technologies rapidly expanded, increasing social mobility encouraged the migration of the middle class to the suburbs and of many Americans to the South and West.
- Two movements: to the suburbs (within metropolitan areas) and to the South and West (between regions).
- The cause is increasing social mobility, so moving up and moving out are described as the same phenomenon.
Select both movements increasing social mobility encouraged.
Moving up and moving out as one phenomenon.
The Sun Belt became a force
- The Sun Belt region emerged as a significant political and economic force.
- Political first: population moves change representation, and representation changes national politics.
- 8.1's third thread promised far-reaching consequences for... politics, and this is the mechanism it meant.
A cause of growth, a driver of mobility, or a result?
Sort each element of postwar affluence.
The Sun Belt emerged as a significant...
Population moves change representation.
The CED lists expanding higher education as a cause of mobility, not a result of prosperity. Education and new technologies raised social mobility, which encouraged the migration of the middle class to the suburbs — so the suburbs are downstream of the classroom.
The CED lists expanding higher education as...
6.10's mechanism running again, larger.
Education as an engine
- Higher education opportunities... rapidly expanded is listed as a cause of mobility, not as a result of prosperity.
- 6.10 had made increased access to educational institutions a cause of the new middle class; the same mechanism runs again, larger.
- So the suburbs are downstream of the classroom, which is a more precise claim than "prosperity produced suburbs".
The baby boom is a ____ cause of an economic effect.
More people means more demand as well as more workers.
Two objectives, one economy
- 8.4 carries the causes of economic growth and the causes and effects of migration, and the CED links them through mobility.
- Growth: private sector, federal spending, baby boom, technology.
- Migration: education and technology raising mobility, producing suburbs and a Sun Belt that reshaped politics.
Send a generation to college and you have changed where it can work, what it can afford and how far it can live from the job. The house on the edge of town is the last step of a sequence that began in a lecture hall.
A burgeoning private sector, federal spending, the baby boom, and technological developments helped spur economic growth. As higher education opportunities and new technologies rapidly expanded, increasing social mobility encouraged the migration of the middle class to the suburbs and of many Americans to the South and West. The Sun Belt region emerged as a significant political and economic force.