Red State : : An Insider's Story of How the GOP Came to Dominate Texas Politics / / Wayne Thorburn.
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. Te...
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