Reflection
Political parties perform roles that are massively important to the overall functioning of our political system. Political changes and developments in certain states leads them to tilting to a certain party. Texas in particular used to be a Democratic state and is now a Republican state due to many political and social changes that came along the way. During the 1970’s, the Democratic Party was able to gain control of the state government and dominated Texas politics. Because of The Post-Reconstruction Order, political control by the white Democrats was secured through the Poll Tax and White Primary. During the Civil Rights Movement, Republicans were liberal and the Democratic Party consisted of conservative whites. After Reconstruction, …show more content…
Senate seat in 1961. Cunningham pointed out that Tower was, “…essentially the lead Republican strategist in Texas. He made Republicans respectable.” With that being said, Tower’s position of representing Texas as a powerful Republican catalyzed Texas’ transition from a blue to a red state. Lastly, what also lead Texas to become Republican is that that the Democrats started destroying the oil industry and overtaxing everything, and Lyndon B Johnson did nothing to fix that. Cunningham explains how on the other hand, “Tower strongly pushed for the protection of the oil depletion allowance…” Due to those circumstances, it was obvious that going Republican was the better …show more content…
The mistake Democrats made was bringing in people who aren’t even Texan into Texas, assuming that the people will buy into whatever marketing plan they had established to turn Texas blue. Thorburn informs readers that Glen Smith, a Texas Democratic consultant said, “You have to speak Texan if you’re going to do well here. They didn’t. There was this belief that if ya waved this turnout wand you would wake up with some progressive majority. This didn’t exist.” Republicans will see their inability to mobilize and turn out voters as an opportunity to bring in real Texans who can relate to their values and convince Texas to remain
Political parties perform roles that are massively important to the overall functioning of our political system. Political changes and developments in certain states leads them to tilting to a certain party. Texas in particular used to be a Democratic state and is now a Republican state due to many political and social changes that came along the way. During the 1970’s, the Democratic Party was able to gain control of the state government and dominated Texas politics. Because of The Post-Reconstruction Order, political control by the white Democrats was secured through the Poll Tax and White Primary. During the Civil Rights Movement, Republicans were liberal and the Democratic Party consisted of conservative whites. After Reconstruction, …show more content…
Senate seat in 1961. Cunningham pointed out that Tower was, “…essentially the lead Republican strategist in Texas. He made Republicans respectable.” With that being said, Tower’s position of representing Texas as a powerful Republican catalyzed Texas’ transition from a blue to a red state. Lastly, what also lead Texas to become Republican is that that the Democrats started destroying the oil industry and overtaxing everything, and Lyndon B Johnson did nothing to fix that. Cunningham explains how on the other hand, “Tower strongly pushed for the protection of the oil depletion allowance…” Due to those circumstances, it was obvious that going Republican was the better …show more content…
The mistake Democrats made was bringing in people who aren’t even Texan into Texas, assuming that the people will buy into whatever marketing plan they had established to turn Texas blue. Thorburn informs readers that Glen Smith, a Texas Democratic consultant said, “You have to speak Texan if you’re going to do well here. They didn’t. There was this belief that if ya waved this turnout wand you would wake up with some progressive majority. This didn’t exist.” Republicans will see their inability to mobilize and turn out voters as an opportunity to bring in real Texans who can relate to their values and convince Texas to remain