ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the places such as Detroit, Michigan; Mansfield, Ohio; Middlesboro, Kentucky/Claiborne County, Tennessee, and Miami, Florida. The history of Detroit captures in one place the history of the American automobile industry and the consequences of dependence on one industry. The major thesis of the chapter is that the 'factors' causing political behavior cannot just be added up in linear fashion to constitute an adequate explanation. To the contrary, it is how these factors 'come together', take on meaning for people, and determine political outcomes that constitute satisfactory political analysis. Many of these causes, as it have argued, emanate from other places beyond the confines of the locality. But it is in the locality and through the choices of local populations that the various causes of political behavior, from the shifting economic position of the US automobile industry, in the case of Detroit, to Castro's Revolution in Cuba, in the case of Miami, work to structure political expression.
