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POLS 2312 1st Edition Lecture 7 Loose Factionalism Demagogues Most confederate states started loose factionalism Wouldn t see factionalism in Texas or the Democratic Party Former Jim became Mayor of Texas of the Democratic Party O Daniel hosted a daily radio show o Wrote a number of songs o Salesman of flour o Ran for governor in the 20th century o Was voted for senate and was a republican major problem when you have one political party 1 Cattle 2 Large part of Rio Grande 3 Massive expential oil industry Sam Rayburn speaker of the House of Representative of Texas The New Deal Coalition Republican Party was barely anywhere Democratic Party dominated in the south 1929 the bottom fell out of the economy Great Depression Brought together Rural southern writes the new deal Coalition The South and the New Deal The South had been the bedrock of the Democratic Party since the 1860s Regional solidarity ability to block legislation that might affect the region s social political and economic status quo Democratic ascendency and southern control of key congressional committees The New Deal Banking Holliday Civilian Conservation Corps Tennessee Valley Authority These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute Rural electrification Franklin created the New Deal which were a bunch of programs to help people get out of depression o Works programs work progress o Agricultural Adjustment Act limitation on how much farmers could grow transformed the basis of agricultural Ex cotton corn tobacco o Social Security Act 1935 old age pension New Deal partisan loyalty reinforced for rural Texans Emergence of recognizably conservative and liberal factions within the Texas Democratic Party 1936 Democratic Party continued everything except the Supreme Court Conservative Coalition group of republicans who would be with the southern South Texas Jefes In the Hispanic counties of South Texas votes were typically controlled by local bosses Often bosses would pay poll taxes and then transport people to the polls Archie Parr the Duke of Duval Buses would come get them and take them to the polling stations and help them vote 1948 Linden Johnson ran for the U S senate against Coke Steven democratic o Was a very tight race but Coke Steven won was up 20 thousand votes o Many counties were like we didn t count up the votes for the election correctly but Coke Steven still won o But they didn t count the votes from the one prescient all after they counted the votes from that place that Linden B Johnson won the race Texas in Transition 45 4 urban in 1940 62 7 in 1950 Urbanization destabilized traditional political culture Economics Growth of Hispanic population Breakdown of Traditional Loyalties The Texas Regulars 1944 The Dixiecrat Revolt 1948


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