Steve Hausman

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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 how does it do that and what kind of settlers are attracted to this place as a result?

And I imagine that this process of selling this land is making your Charles Goodnight's and their elk fabulously wealthy as well at the same time.

So in our conversation, we're taking kind of a bit of a top-down, 30,000-foot view of the book.

But it's worth saying that one of my favorite parts of reading this was it's a book that's full of characters, kind of, you know,

almost cartoonishly classic Western larger-than-life characters.

You know, Goodnight Among Them, but there's lots of people like that.

And kind of the next critical figure in the story in kind of early 20th century Texas history was someone that was surprising to me.

So can you explain the connection between breakfast cereal and West Texas conservatism?

Tell us about Grape Nuts and the guy behind Grape Nuts and how this matters for the story of why this place became so conservative.

So I want to zoom back out a bit.

And, you know, just as a quick aside, while you were talking about post-Texas a moment ago, I just kind of looked it up on the map on my phone, and it looks like such a planned community.

Like, it's these perfect grid streets, and it's this kind of little dot out on the Texas panhandle.

And it's just wild.

You can really see how it was designed to be this kind of planned little community like that.

So all of these individuals and these plans and these ideas, they're going to run headlong into events that are larger than any one person.

So zooming out a bit, let's talk about these kind of national and global goings on that are going to impact Texas.

Tell us about the Great Depression and the New Deal, this kind of critical decade of the 1930s in Texas and the rise of conservative politics.

I want to talk about another individual who makes an appearance in this book, another one of the kind of crucial characters in the roots of Texas's conservative politics.

And this person was, of all things, a historian like you and me.

Tell us about J. Evitz Haley.

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