This study focuses upon the Texas congressional delegation from 1933 to 1938 in an attempt to determine the extent of southern insurgency within that group. Following an examination of the Redeemer-insurgent dichotomy in southern politics since Reconstruction, the thesis analyzes roll-call votes on New Deal legislation concerning agricultural, financial, relief, and labor reform issues to demonstrate that a spirit of southern insurgency existed in Texas politics in the 1930's. The study concludes that Morris Sheppard, Sam Rayburn, Maury Maverick, W. D. McFarlane, R. Ewing Thomason, and Lyndon B. Johnson were politicians in the tradition of southern insurgents. The influence of these men, especially Sheppard, Rayburn, and Maverick, on the pa...
This study offers a concentrated view of how a national movement developed networks from the grassro...
textLyndon Johnson, the thirty-sixth President, had a profound affect on the Democratic Party in Ame...
The annexation of Texas by the United States brought to a close the nine year period of independent ...
Typescript (photocopy).This study of electoral voting patterns in the eleven ex-Confederate states b...
The purpose of this paper is to examine, from a local perspective, the reaction of the southern cons...
Typescript (photocopy).This study of electoral voting patterns in the eleven ex-Confederate states b...
This study is devoted to the activities of the urban liberals and their rural allies in their attemp...
The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between the roll call voting behavior of Te...
"This study is interested primarily in the political and economic philosophies which motivated the m...
The post Civil War period known as Reconstruction remains a topic of interest for historians. Having...
Southern Congressmen have been viewed as opponents of the radical nature of New Deal labor reform, a...
Following the collapse of the insurgencies of the 1880s and 1890s, many former populists and Gilded ...
This dissertation examines the extent, causes, and consequences of ideological diversity in the one-...
This dissertation examines the extent, causes, and consequences of ideological diversity in the one-...
In 1949 the great political scientist V.O. Key averred regarding Southern politics, "In its grand ou...
This study offers a concentrated view of how a national movement developed networks from the grassro...
textLyndon Johnson, the thirty-sixth President, had a profound affect on the Democratic Party in Ame...
The annexation of Texas by the United States brought to a close the nine year period of independent ...
Typescript (photocopy).This study of electoral voting patterns in the eleven ex-Confederate states b...
The purpose of this paper is to examine, from a local perspective, the reaction of the southern cons...
Typescript (photocopy).This study of electoral voting patterns in the eleven ex-Confederate states b...
This study is devoted to the activities of the urban liberals and their rural allies in their attemp...
The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between the roll call voting behavior of Te...
"This study is interested primarily in the political and economic philosophies which motivated the m...
The post Civil War period known as Reconstruction remains a topic of interest for historians. Having...
Southern Congressmen have been viewed as opponents of the radical nature of New Deal labor reform, a...
Following the collapse of the insurgencies of the 1880s and 1890s, many former populists and Gilded ...
This dissertation examines the extent, causes, and consequences of ideological diversity in the one-...
This dissertation examines the extent, causes, and consequences of ideological diversity in the one-...
In 1949 the great political scientist V.O. Key averred regarding Southern politics, "In its grand ou...
This study offers a concentrated view of how a national movement developed networks from the grassro...
textLyndon Johnson, the thirty-sixth President, had a profound affect on the Democratic Party in Ame...
The annexation of Texas by the United States brought to a close the nine year period of independent ...