Conservative Frontier: Texas and the Origins of the New Right owner and curator of TED

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Conservative Frontier: Texas and the Origins of the New Right owner and curator of TEDHow West Texas business and culture molded the rise of conservatism in the United States. Much of what we understand as modern American political conservatism was born in West Texas, where today it predominates. How did the people of such a vast region larger than New England and encompassing big cities like Lubbock and Amarillo, as well as tiny towns from Anson to Dalhart develop such a uniform political culture? And why and how did it go national?