Texas Matters: THE MYTH OF RED TEXAS

"Griscom’s argument is not that Texas was ever a uniformly left-wing state, or that conservative power was absent. Rather, he says the state’s political history has always been a struggle between wealth and labor, hierarchy and democracy, exclusion and solidarity.

That runs against the common assumption that Texas was always naturally conservative, and that today’s political map simply reflects an unbroken tradition."

Find the full interview here.