GOVT 2306 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Blue Dog Coalition, Allan Shivers, Presidency Of Ronald Reagan
23 Feb 2016
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History of partisanship in texas since the end of the civil war. Republicans who were businesspeople were unhappy with liberal policies of fdr or truman. Democratic governor, allan shivers, led the shivercrat movement. He was a conservative democrat and supported republican. Republican views began to grow and pockets of r support emerged and grew stronger in state elections. Split between liberals and conservatives developed in the democratic party that focused on new deal economic policies and civil rights measures, After reconstruction through mid 1950"s conservative democrats were in control. Conservative on fiscal and racial issues, influence in the region and. Conservative d"s continued to win over the liberals because simply more conservatives in the state than anything. Then ghw bush and reagan revolution reached texas where the. Democratic party shrank to become the minority party. Growth is seen in identification, voters, and elected in office. More than 60% of texans identified as democrats, less than 10% were.
