The Texas Right : the radical roots of Lone Star conservatism / edited by David O'Donald Cullen and Kyle G. Wilkison.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cullen, David O'Donald, 1951-

Wilkison, Kyle Grant, 1960-

Series:

Elma Dill Russell Spencer series in the West and Southwest ; no. 39.

Elma Dill Russell Spencer series in the West and Southwest ; v. 39

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Radicalism--Texas--History.

Radicalism.

Conservatism--Texas--History.

Conservatism.

Right-wing extremists--Texas--History.

Right-wing extremists.

Religious right--Texas--History.

Religious right.

Tea Party movement--Texas--History.

Tea Party movement.

Social movements--Texas--History.

Social movements.

History.

Texas--Politics and government--1865-1950.

Texas.

Politics and government.

Texas--Politics and government--1951-.

Physical Description:

191 pages ; 25 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2014.

Summary:

More than a century before the Texas Tea Party, the earliest foundations of right-wing ascendancy were laid in the Lone Star State... 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, illuminating 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. Focusing on broad-based movements and significant public figures, The Texas Right provides a careful, reasoned synthesis of the factors that led to the transformation of the Texas Republican Party from its Reconstruction beginnings as a radical agent for progressive, government-enforced social change to the twenty-first-century incarnation, which vehemently rejects government involvement in most aspects of public life. This book will prove to be a valuable resource for scholars, students, and interested general readers. Book jacket.

Contents:

From "Turn Texas loose" to the Tea Party: origins of the Texas Right / David O'Donald Cullen

Texan by color: the racialization of the Lone Star state / Michael Phillips

"The evils of socialism": the religious right in early twentieth-century Texas / Kyle G. Wilkison

"He, being dead, yet speaketh": J. Frank Norris and the Texas religious right at midcentury / Samuel K. Tullock

The far right in Texas politics during the Roosevelt era / Keith Volanto

Establishing the Texas Right, 1940-1960 / George N. Green

The paranoid style and its limits: the power, influence, and failure of the postwar Texas Right / Sean P. Cunningham

Focus on the family: twentieth-century conservative Texas women and the Lone Star Right / Nancy E. Baker

Texas tradition and the Right: continuity and change / Michael Lind.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781623490287

1623490286

9781623490294

1623490294

9781623491116

1623491118

OCLC:

848393227