01543nam a22001217a 4500008004100000100002500041245010100066260002700167300003000194520110600224650006401330773002701394241105b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aPuig, Luisa Godinez   aWhite fortressing: How racial threat and conservatism lead to the formation of local governments  aUrban Affairs Review    a60(1), Jan, 2024: p.16-48  aA large body of research has shown that American politics have been highly influenced by conservative movements born in American White suburbia. Yet, suburbs are also moving left and becoming more diversified. I argue that this context has led to new cityhood movements in unincorporated areas of some regions of the US. By forming cities, unincorporated communities detach themselves from shared county-level authorities and the wider populations served in these jurisdictions. What triggers municipal incorporations today and how are recent incorporation movements different from those of the postwar era? To answer these questions, I conduct fieldwork in Georgia. I find that municipal incorporations are a modern type of segregation triggered by sentiments of racial threat and conservatism, which I call White fortressing. I update the study of government formation by analyzing a new wave of municipal incorporations and contribute to the literature works on White flight, racial threat, and residential segregation.- Reproduced 

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  aMunicipal incarnations, Racial segregation, Racial threat.   aUrban Affairs Review