Jeff Roche

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New Books in History · Jeff Roche, "The Conservative Frontier: Texas and the Origins of the New Right" (U Texas Press, 2025) · 20 Dec 2025 podcast

So it's no longer surpassed past those edges.

And it is the dominant ideology in that part of the world.

The republicanism, big R republicanism of the place is fully in place.

There's a story I like to tell.

After the 2016 election,

A lot of people started looking at maps and they noticed that Roberts County, which is up in the panhandle, voted for Donald Trump.

He received his highest percentage of any county's votes in Roberts County.

So ABC News sent a team down to Roberts County to investigate how it is that this place voted for Trump in these overwhelming numbers.

And

They discovered that these folks were rock-ribbed Republicans, and I just thought to myself, had they looked at the same county-level voting map in 2012—

they would have seen that Roberts County voted for Mitt Romney in the same numbers.

And in 2008, they voted for George W. Bush in the same numbers.

I'm sorry, in 2008, John McCain, before that, George Bush.

So what they found were not necessarily Trump country votes.

What they found was a county, and this spreads across most of that part of Texas, that is just Republican.

Republican in the way that they used to be Democrat.

I mean, back in the 1920s, Texans couldn't imagine voting for Republicans.

And it's that way in the world now.

They just can't imagine necessarily voting for a Democrat.

So in terms of the future, I can't see, you know, with my limited cloudy crystal ball, any change to that.

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