Are Texas Democrats Finally Reaching the Mountaintop?: THE MYTH OF RED TEXAS

"As David Griscom recently showed in The Myth of Red Texas: Cowboys, Populism, and Class War in the Radical South, the populist movement was born in Texas, and later, its Socialist Party was among the largest in the country. Democrats killed both—the former by stripping its policy platform for parts, the latter through good old-fashioned state repression."

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