Jeff Roche
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So there's all of this sort of anti-communist content that just starts showing up everywhere across the late 1950s.
and early 1960s.
And that helps build this movement among booster organizations, not just in West Texas and the rest of the Great Plains where they were very, very powerful, but this is happening nationwide.
This is happening in these kinds of organizations nationwide.
And you'll find groups like the Jaycees or the American Legion forming Americanism committees within their local organizations to sort of root out communism.
So it's happening there.
in these unexpected kind of places.
And it's a fairly easy move to get that kind of political engagement and then transfer that into electoral politics.
And that's what you start seeing happening.
And the reason it works so well in West Texas, and I would argue also in other parts of the American South, is there's no Republican Party to speak of in Texas until the 1960s.
There had been, you know, Texas at the time was the South.
There's no Republicans in the South after Reconstruction.
So the Democratic Party had developed into this monolith that's controlled at the county level.
And it is also very conservative in Texas.
The Democratic Party is not liberal by any stretch of the imagination.
It's a very conservative party.
But the Republican Party is just sitting there.
It's a shell of an organization.
In 1958,
The Randall County GOP had their county convention in the chair's living room, and there were only five people there.
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