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Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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Every ten years, the Texas legislature redistricts itself and the state’s congressional districts in an attempt to ensure equality in representation. With a richly textured cultural fabric, Texas often experiences redistricting battles that are heated enough to gain national attention. Collecting a variety of voices, including legislators themselves, in addition to lawyers, community organizers, political historians, and political scientists,
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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The Republican Party has dominated Texas politics in recent decades, but for a long time after Reconstruction ended the Texas GOP was little more than a vehicle for federal patronage (i.e., getting appointed to a Washington job as a reward for serving the party in a Republican backwater like Texas). Thorburn begins with this history, from the founding of the party in 1867 through patronage battles and the debates of the 1920s between Reconstruction-minded...
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