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Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by the rise of

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the Sun Belt because the sooner you realize that America is basically [Canada wearing America as pants]

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Canada's pants the sooner you'll realize that the belt should be a lot higher up

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take a look at the passage right there....

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Okay here's the question - One effect of the trend described in the excerpt

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was what and here are your potential answers... Imagine for

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a second if Johnson actually managed to accomplish everything outlined in this [Johnson giving a speech]

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excerpt no war no inequality no poverty no disease no bigotry no hate what would

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politicians be promising now making traffic a little bit less bad maybe or

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what if every restaurant had to sell pancakes, that might be cool

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right well that unfortunately was not the case and in fact only one of these

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answers actually came to fruition and that certainly wasn't the end of the [Fruit pops open]

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Vietnam War which raged on throughout Johnson's presidency until 1973 [Vietnam soldiers in war]

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thankfully C didn't happen either as the values of the Great Society were

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enacted the Supreme Court made even more decisions that protected individual [Judge bangs gavel]

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freedoms like Miranda v Arizona that one actually led to reading of Miranda

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rights which you probably don't think you know but if you've ever watched the [Police officers picking up a woman]

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crime TV you definitely do..Law & Order ....okay and the

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rise of the Sun Belt wasn't a result of anything to do with LBJ instead it was

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an effect of the baby boom and suburbanization trends in other words you

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know that whole stereotype about rich old people retiring to warm places like [Old couple with packed bags move to Florida]

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Florida and Arizona yeah that's actually a thing and actually caused the rise of

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the Sun Belt which just so happens to sound like the title of the dumbest

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action movie ever, see not everyone actually thought the Great Society was [Group of people in a hall]

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great and the initiative put forward by Johnson actually spurred on the

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mobilization of a conservative backlash led by Americans who felt that it was [Family eating dinner together]

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their duty to defend traditional visions of morality and what they felt was the

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appropriate role of the state funnily enough

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mobilization of the conservative movement is actually the sequel to the

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rise of the Sun Belt coming soon to a really boring theater near you [Rise of Sun Belt 2 movie advert]

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