The Texas Right: The Radical Roots of Lone Star Conservatism (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781623490294)

In The Texas Right: The Radical Roots of Lone Star Conservatism, some of our most accomplished and readable historians push the origins of present-day Texas conservatism back to the decade preceding the twentieth century. They illuminate the initial factors that began moving Texas to the far right, even before the arrival of the New Deal.

By demonstrating that Texas politics foreshadowed the partisan realignment of the erstwhile Solid South, the studies in this book challenge the traditional narrative that emphasizes the right-wing critique of modern America voiced by, among others, radical conservatives of the state's Democratic Party, beginning in the 1930s. As the contributors show, it is impossible to understand the Jeffersonian Democrats of 1936, the Texas Regular movement of 1944, the Dixiecrat Party of 1948, the Shivercrats of the 1950s, state members of the John Birch Society, Texas members of Young Americans for Freedom, Reagan Democrats, and most recently, even, the Tea Party movement without first understanding the underlying impulses that produced their formation.

Author: David O. Cullen
ISBN-10: 1623490294
ISBN-13: 9781623490294
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/22/2014
Pages: 191
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2014