The Texas Right: The Radical Roots of Lone Star Conservatism

Contents

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 ...