H. Ross Peron
General Mung Beans
Junior Chimp
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Political Matrix
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« on: October 14, 2020, 03:01:58 PM » |
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The Texas Regulars were a slate of unpledged Presidential electors running on a conservative, anti-New Deal platform in the 1944 election. Their platform-especially opposition to the New Deal and attempts to reverse restrictions on black political participation-anticipated the Dixiecrat movement 4 years later. Interestingly, their support base reveals similar tendencies as well as the later shift of Southern suburbia to the Republican Party in the 1950s-70s.
They received above average levels of support in most urban counties especially Harris and Tarrant but also Travis and Dallas. The only exception was Bexar (San Antonio) which had a large Hispanic population.
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