- A white picket fence, manicured hedges, a large, detached house. These are the staples of white American suburban culture.
- Linked with the synonymous conservative, nuclear family in America. The idea of lots of kids and a happy marriage.
- For women this meant material comfort, caring for the kids, for the husband when he gets home from a long day of work.
- 40% of the population were suburb dwellers by the 1970s.
