Economy and Culture (jan 11, 1945 – may 27, 1960)

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ECONOMY:
- baby boom
- increased desire for suburbs
- growing middle class
- Immigration to Sunbelt states (highways made it easier to travel from suburbs to rural area)
- Levittown was created (cheaper and mass production of suburban homes)

BUT - shift of politcal power from northeast and midwest to south and west as taxes for defense spending shifted to sunbelt states

CULTURE:
- normal to conform
- no one wanted to be outted as a communism (McCarthyism)
- television provided platform for mass culture consumption
- advertising industry grew rapidely as 1950s was stable and prosperous. But soon offered more than ppl could afford => credit cards

Beatniks were poets who rebelled against social norms through poetry

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