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082 0 4 _a324.09764/09045
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aThorburn, Wayne
_eautore
245 1 0 _aRed State :
_bAn Insider's Story of How the GOP Came to Dominate Texas Politics /
_cWayne Thorburn.
264 1 _aAustin :
_bUniversity of Texas Press,
_c[2021]
264 4 _c©2014
300 _a1 online resource (310 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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490 0 _aJack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tPreface and Acknowledgments --
_tA Note on Sources --
_t1. Understanding Texas --
_t2. Dividing the State --
_t3. A Century of One-Party Politics --
_t4. Stirrings and Small Cracks --
_t5. Toward a Two-Party Texas --
_t6. The Two-Party Interlude --
_t7. The Era of Republican Dominance --
_t8. The Future of Texas Politics --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aIn November 1960, the Democratic party dominated Texas. The newly elected vice president, Lyndon Johnson, was a Texan. Democrats held all thirty statewide elective positions. The state legislature had 181 Democrats and no Republicans or anyone else. Then fast forward fifty years to November 2010. Texas has not voted for a Democratic president since 1976. Every statewide elective office is held by Republicans. Representing Texas in Washington is a congressional delegation of twenty-five Republicans and nine Democrats. Republicans control the Texas Senate by a margin of nineteen to twelve and the Texas House of Representatives by 101 to 49. Red State explores why this transformation of Texas politics took place and what these changes imply for the future. As both a political scientist and a Republican party insider, Wayne Thorburn is especially qualified to explain how a solidly one-party Democratic state has become a Republican stronghold. He analyzes a wealth of data to show how changes in the state’s demographics—including an influx of new residents, the shift from rural to urban, and the growth of the Mexican American population—have moved Texas through three stages of party competition, from two-tiered politics, to two-party competition between Democrats and Republicans, and then to the return to one-party dominance, this time by Republicans. His findings reveal that the shift from Democratic to Republican governance has been driven not by any change in Texans’ ideological perspective or public policy orientation—even when Texans were voting Democrat, conservatives outnumbered liberals or moderates—but by the Republican party’s increasing identification with conservatism since 1960.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2022)
650 0 _aParty affiliation
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650 0 _aPolitical culture
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650 0 _aPolitical parties
_zTexas
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650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / General.
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856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7560/759206
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292759213
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