| Everyone knows Texas is a red state. Except — it wasn’t always.
Cowboys went on strike. Socialists won elections. Farmers built a mass movement demanding what they called the “cooperative commonwealth.” For decades, Texas was a hotbed of left-wing organizing that shook the robber barons who thought they owned the place.
That history has been buried. In his debut book, the talented young writer David Griscom argues that the assumption of permanent conservative dominance in Texas is not just wrong, it’s a political weapon — one that tells progressives their cause is hopeless before they’ve even begun to fight. |
