Steve Hausman
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Who is this person and how and why is he a vital part of the story that you're telling here?
So the problem was, according to Haley, that the New Deal and Roosevelt and, you know, New Dealers like him, that they violated basically the same code that was laid out by Charles Goodnight and his ilk, you know, in the 1870s and 1880s.
That this sort of what it meant to be a West Texas rancher was, in their minds, incompatible with the new economic order of the late Great Depression.
Yeah, when I was reading the book, I ran just a curiosity Google image search of J.Evitz Haley.
And one of the first images that comes up is of a campaign poster, I think, of Haley for governor or some political campaign that says right underneath in huge letters for segregation and states' rights underneath a picture of the guy.
So, yeah, that's definitely part of his whole ideology.
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
So as we get into the 1950s and 1960s and the kind of middle decades of the 20th century, the post-war era, we begin to see nationally a movement that is starting to become recognizable as something akin to the contemporary American right.
I mean, obviously, there's still a lot of changes to come.
The right, as we think of it, doesn't have the kind of
political power yet that it has today, but it's forming.
The kernel, the nucleus is there.
The ball that got rolling in this part of the country with Good Night and these ideas about free markets and natural law and all that you were just talking about, they're crystallizing.
So what does this sort of birth of modern conservatism look like in West Texas?
How did groups like the John Birch Society, for instance, how do they find a toehold here?
So if this kind of politics is very much facilitated by the culture and the media environment in this particular corner of the country, how does this get exported?
You make the argument in the book that, you know, obviously the rise of the new right and everything has a lot of different sort of antecedents and things that lead to it.
But you make the case that you can't understand this kind of national story without understanding the West Texas stories.
So how does this West Texas version of conservatism, how does it end up, as you say in the book, kind of taking over the National Republican Party?
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