Summary
In the 1960s and 1970s, writes Sean P. Cunningham, assistant professor of history at Texas Tech University, "As the national Democratic Party unraveled .. due to political assassinations, rising crime
rates, civil disobedience, racial militancy and intensified factionalism . the Texas Democratic Party slowly crumbled while the national Republican Party assumed the mantle of a redefined conservatism.."See the full content of this document
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How Texas Became Heart of the Right
Within this context, conservative Republicans convinced Texans that liberalism, to borrow an elegant Agnewvian phrase, was the philosophy of "acid, amnesty and abortion," and "the Democratic Party was ...
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