Cowboy Conservatism: Texas and the Rise of the Modern Right

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Abzug, Bella, 189 advertising direct mail, 191, 227 Reagan’s use of in 1976, 173–74 See also television AFL-CIO, 63 African Americans demographics, 100, 104–5 Texas Republicans and, 114 Tower’s 1972 Senate campaign and, 147 Agnew, Spiro T., 107, 128, 150 Agnich, Fred, 130 agriculture in the 1920s, 19 during World War II, 24 Aguirre, Humberto, 145–46 air force bases, 21, 164 Alger, Bruce, 40, 41–51, 54, 66 Amarillo Daily News, 75–76 Americans for Effective Presidency, 225 “Amigocrats for Tower Committee,” 74 Anderson, Donny, 78 Andujar, Betty, 35–36, 130, 156 Angelo, Ernest, Jr., 166, 227 annexation, 14 anticommunism politics, 27 in the 1961 Tower-Blakely election, 36–37 in the 1976 Republican presidential primary, 170–71 antigovernment populism, 130–31 antiwar Left, 79, 81 antiwar protests, 81 Archer, Joe, 237 Armstrong, Bob, 177 Index 283 Italic page numbers refer to illustrations athletes, 227 Athletes for Reagan-Bush, 227 Austin, Texas busing in, 213 characteristics of, 9 the Whitman murders, 71–72 aviation industry, 21, 194 B-1 bomber, 194 backlash politics conservative identity and, 125 defeat of Ralph Yarborough, 122–23 desegregation and busing controversies , 114–20 gun control, 120 “I am a Sick American,” 97–99 limits of, 121–22 George Mahon and, 121 Mexican Americans and, 109–13 race relations, 99–106 racial appeals in 1968, 106–9 racism and, 125 source of, 121 Bainbridge, John, 99, 101 Baker, James, 153, 201–3 Baptist General Convention of Texas, 156 Barnett, Ross, 104 Barnhart, Ray, 163–64, 166 baseball, 101 Baylor University, 214–15, 232 Bentsen, Lloyd, 122, 123, 124, 198, 241 “Big Inch” pipeline, 22 Big Spring, Texas, 164 Birthright, 157 Blakely, William A., 34–35, 36 284 Index “bossism,” 8 Bracero Program, 24 Briscoe, Dolph, 129, 147, 179–80, 195, 197 Brown v. Board of Education, 29, 44, 99, 101, 102, 115 Buckley, William F., Jr., 80–81 Bush, George H. W., 123, 153, 239, 241 1970 congressional campaign, 124 1978 Texas gubernatorial election and, 197 1980 presidential bid, 222–23 ERA and, 156 repackaged as a moderate conservative , 72–73 John Tower’s 1978 reelection bid and, 200 vice presidential candidacy, 223 Bush, George W., 137, 203–5, 241 “Bush Bashes,” 205 busing in Austin, 213 Jimmy Carter on, 180 controversies in, 114–20 in Dallas, 157 George McGovern and, 139 Cabell, Earle, 48, 49, 50–51, 54, 131, 132, 134 Caddell, Patrick, 180–81 call centers, 226, 227 Cambodian invasion, 120 Campbell, Randolph, 15 Campus Crusade for Christ, 187 canals. See Trinity River Canal Project Carpenter, Ben, 68, 70, 83, 99 “carpetbaggers,” 14–15 Carr, Billie, 177–78 Carr, Waggoner, 73–74, 75, 78, 128 Carter, Jimmy, 155 1976 presidential campaign, 177–80 1978 Texas gubernatorial election and, 195–97 1980 presidential campaign, 229–31, 235 energy issues and, 183–85 the Guest affair and, 177–78 immigration speech in San Antonio, 212 military spending and, 194 Panama Canal treaties, 190–93 Playboy magazine interview, 178–79 Reagan’s attacks on, 219 tagged with liberalism, 193–94 unpopularity in Texas, 183, 209–10, 217, 224 Carter, Rosalyn, 201 cattle industry, 15 Central Texas, 8–9, 214 Cheney, Dick, 153, 241 Chicano movement, 110 Chiles, Eddie, 238 Christian, George, 233 Christian ministry Dallas and, 187–88 See also evangelicals Cisneros, Henry, 233 Cisneros v. Corpus Christi Independent School District, 115 Citizens for Reagan, 152 Citizens Organization for a Sound Treaty (COST), 131, 132–33 civil rights Bruce Alger and, 46 Jimmy Carter and, 180 challenges to “separate but equal,” 28–29 LBJ and, 55–56, 104 Texans’ responses to, 102–4 in Texas, 7 Civil Rights Act of 1964, 55–56, 104 Civil Rights Act of 1966, 106 Clayton, Billy, 230 Clements, Rita, 227 Clements, William P., 194–98, 225–27, 234 Clemons, Leigh, 125, 242 Clinton, Bill, 137, 241 Coffee Time (television show), 42 Coffee with Your Congressman, Bruce Alger (television show), 44 cold war politics, 170–71 communism. See red scare politics Communist Control Act, 41 Index 285 Communist Party, 41 Compact of Fifth Avenue, 135 Confederacy, 14 Connally, John 1966 farm workers’ march, 75 1968 presidential campaign and, 85–87 1976 Republican presidential primary and, 165–66 1978 Texas gubernatorial election and, 197 1980 presidential bid, 219–22 attacks on Ralph Yarborough, 78 career of, 149 conservative-liberal factionalism and, 84 defection from the Democratic Party, 148–50 influence of, 148 JFK assassination...