Red State: An Insider’s Story of How the GOP Came to Dominate Texas Politics - Wayne Thorburn
Shared by:cryotag
In 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.
| Announce URL: | http://googer.cc:1337/announce |
| This Torrent also has several backup trackers | |
| Tracker: | http://googer.cc:1337/announce |
| Tracker: | http://open.acgnxtracker.com:80/announce |
| Tracker: | http://tracker2.dler.org:80/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://exodus.desync.com:6969/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://open.stealth.si:80/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://opentor.org:2710/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://tracker.dler.org:6969/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://tracker.tiny-vps.com:6969/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://tracker.torrent.eu.org:451/announce |
| Creation Date: | Sun, 03 Apr 2022 15:25:48 +0200 |
| This is a Multifile Torrent | |
| How the GOP Came to Dominate Texas Politics.m4b 553.32 MBs | |
| File Size: | 553.32 MBs |
| Piece Size: | 256 KBs |
| Comment: | Updated by AudioBook Bay |
| Info Hash: | ee22293f9548b40355fd9a3250a2c57084f688c9 |
| Torrent Download | Torrent Free Downloads |
| Tips | Sometimes the torrent health info isn’t accurate, so you can download the file and check it out or try the following downloads. |
| Direct Download | Start Direct Download |
| Tips | You could try out alternative bittorrent clients. |
| Secured Download | Download Files Now |
| Ad |
|
This post has 6 comments with rating of 5/5
April 3rd, 2022
I guess the people of Texas caught on as to exactly how corrupt LBJ and his relatives were, and how complicit the Dems were to removing JFK ;-)
April 4th, 2022
When LBJ went for civil rights, GOP went for the racist vote. See Nixon: Southern strategy.
April 4th, 2022
On an interesting historical note, more Republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act, 1964, as a % than did Democrats.
Throughout the ’50s & ’60s, Republicans were more unified than Democrats in support of civil rights legislation, as many Democrats voted in adamant opposition.
The majority Democrats consistently resisted the civil rights movement. In 1956, they expressed their opposition to the ruling in the 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education, which declared that segregated public schools were unconstitutional. Republicans were more unified in their support.
Originally proposed in 1963, the bill faced strong & organised opposition from Democrats. They joined together to launch a filibuster that lasted for 57 days! They argued that the bill would lead to the destruction of “two different social orders” & result in the “amalgamation and mongrelisation of our people.”
However, 82% of Republicans in the Senate voted for the bill.
Prior to this, Congress had passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first major civil rights legislation to be enacted in decades, that sought to protect the voting rights of black Americans. In the Senate, Democrats vehemently opposed to integration, filibustered the vote for a total of 24 hrs & 18 minutes in protest.
After the filibuster ended, the bill passed, receiving 93% of Republican votes. President Eisenhower signed the bill into law on Sep 9, 1957.
The southern strategy contention does tend to obscure the Democrats’ appalling racism & the historical facts of slavery & segregation.
However, there’s not much evidence to support this notion. According to professors Richard Johnston of U of Pennsylvania & Byron Shafer of the U of Wisconsin, “The shift in the South from Dem to Rep was overwhelmingly a question not of race, but of economic growth.” Racial desegregation often applied the brakes to these Republican gains rather than fueling them.
The movement toward Republicanism in the South began in the ’50s as the South industrialised.
However, even this has been very slow, and not general throughout the region. As late as 2010, there were still states like Alabama & North Carolina that were voting in their first Republican legislative majorities since Reconstruction. Something that would have happened overnight in the late 60s if the partisan realignment had been driven by lock-step white voting loyalties on racial lines.
Historically, the Democratic Party was the party of slavery. It was the Democratic Party that promoted segregation & Jim Crow. The KKK was basically the armed wing of the Democratic Party in the South for decades.
The Republican Party repeatedly attempted to end things like Jim Crow. It was Eisenhower who was attempting to forcibly integrate the schools. It was U.S. Grant who was attempting to push for Radical Republican reconstructionism.
The notion that the Republican Party simply switched overnight on civil rights belies all evidence.
However, there was indeed a southern strategy, motivated by disgusting racism. It was operated by the Democrats for two centuries. All else pales in comparison to this evil.
April 4th, 2022
Caesar returns to his Lord Haw Haw mode.
April 4th, 2022
Coherence calling?
May 27th, 2022
Caesar, you did a fantastic job in your little survey. Although we have seen a surge of African-Americans and Hispanics move to the Republican Party in the last few years, it is tragic to see the alt-right come in with their white supremacy ideology. Both parties have become so divisive in the last five or six presidential terms, and with the growth of each party capitalizing on inflaming the passions in such a way as to get their people out to vote.
Add a comment (please log in before commenting)