The Texas Right: The Radical Roots of Lone Star Conservatism (Volume 39) (Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest) PDF
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The Texas Right number thirty-nine Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest Andrés Tijerina, General Editor series board Alwyn Barr James E. Crisp Rebecca Sharpless Eric Van Young A partial list of titles in the series may be found at the back of the book. The Texas RiGhT The Radical Roots of Lone star Conservatism edited by David O’Donald Cullen & Kyle G. Wilkison Texas a&M UniversiTy Press | College sTaTion Copyright © 2014 by Texas A&M University Press All rights reserved First edition Manufactured in the United States of America This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48–1992 (Permanence of Paper). Binding materials have been chosen for durability. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The Texas Right : the radical roots of Lone Star conservatism / edited by David O’Donald Cullen and Kyle G. Wilkison. — 1st ed. p. cm. — (Elma Dill Russell Spencer series in the West and Southwest ; v. 39) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-62349-028-7 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-62349-029-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-62349-111-6 (e-book) 1. Radicalism—Texas—History. 2. Conservatism—Texas—History. 3. Right-wing extremists—Texas—History. 4. Religious right—Texas—History. 5. Tea Party movement—Texas—History. 6. Social movements—Texas— History. 7. Texas—Politics and government—1865–1950. 8. Texas—Politics and government—1951– I. Cullen, David O’Donald, 1951– II. Wilkison, Kyle Grant, 1960– III. Series: Elma Dill Russell Spencer series in the West and Southwest ; no. 39. HN79.T43R383 2014 303.484—dc23 ' 2013022038 To Mary Lenn Dixon Contents Acknowledgments vii From “Turn Texas Loose” to the Tea Party: Origins of the Texas Right David O’Donald Cullen 1 Texan by Color: The Racialization of the Lone Star State Michael Phillips 10 “The Evils of Socialism”: The Religious Right in Early Twentieth-Century Texas Kyle G. Wilkison 34 “He, Being Dead, Yet Speaketh”: J. Frank Norris and the Texas Religious Right at Midcentury Samuel K. Tullock 51 The Far Right in Texas Politics during the Roosevelt Era Keith Volanto 68 Establishing the Texas Far Right, 1940–1960 George N. Green 87 The Paranoid Style and Its Limits: The Power, Influence, and Failure of the Postwar Texas Far Right Sean P. Cunningham 101 Focus on the Family: Twentieth-Century Conservative Texas Women and the Lone Star Right Nancy E. Baker 119 Texas Traditions and the Right: Continuity and Change Michael Lind 155 About the Contributors 173 Index 175 acknowledgments This work grew out of an East Texas Historical Association meeting roundtable discussion of a collection of essays titled The Texas Left: The Radical Roots of Lone Star Liberalism. In conversations about the influence of radical movements in shaping post–World War II liberalism in the state of Texas, a question arose if similar influences explained contemporary conservatism. This is a beginning toward an answer to that question. Just as recent monographs have moved the origins of the civil rights move- ment to well before the 1954 Brown decision, in recent years historians have made similar arguments about contemporary conservatism: that an understanding of the Reagan era must include movements, organizations, and individuals that long preceded the 1980s. We have been fortunate that a group of historians working in this field joined us for this project. Their efforts reflect a generation’s worth of ar- chival research and reflection that build upon the work of many scholars representing a variety of topics. Scholars of every ilk, most especially historians, cannot do their work without the invaluable help of librarians and archivists; on behalf of our contributors, we thank all those whose everyday, unassuming dedication to their craft made this volume possible. We also must thank Texas A&M University Press’s anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions. Many more thanks are due to Thom Lemmons and all the outstanding staff at the Press for their dedication to the discipline of history. We are indebted to copyeditor Lona Dearmont and indexer Sherrye Young for their careful work on this book. Lastly, we owe more than we can repay to Mary Lenn Dixon, editor-in- chief at Texas A&M University Press, whose support and confidence made this project possible. Her long and fruitful commitment to publishing new scholarship has forever changed and enriched the practice of Texas history.
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