Many Texas cities fell into mismanagement, chaos, and collapse during the Second Great Depression. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex was the most spectacular of those failures, but there were others. Local political policies left them as vulnerable as the federal government[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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The Texas State Guard went to great lengths to secure the Texas borders during the Second Great Depression. They also worked with neighboring reserve and national guard agencies to further encourage order where it could be maintained. All while working[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Everybody knows the story of Dixie, the virtual cheerleader from Texas Tech who woke up and realized she liked her students. Even if they had a tendency to create indecent pictures of her that no Proper Southern Lady could abide.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While the Left and Lefter Coasts of the country were going nuts over this Wuhan Virus thing, the Midwest has been quietly going on about our lives without mostly noticing it. For me, it was court week. Yes, for the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Second Great Depression. Some people call it the Second Civil War. Others put emphasis on the Drug Wars. Or the Cybernetic Wars. The Republic of Texas fought them all. Texas was ready. Mostly. Some cities fell into chaos, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It is impossible to overestimate how much September 11, 2001 affected Texas. Texas soldiers had always marched to war and came back having seen the world outside their State. And when one of their own, now President of the United[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As the end of the Twentieth Century came to a close, Texas had transitioned from a dominantly White Democrat governing culture to a strongly multi-ethnic Republican State, though there continued to be many fracture lines in their changing demographics. High[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Many in Post-War Texas tried to march back the many reforms necessity had pushed on them, especially for women and minorities. The fighting men (largely White Men) had come home, and it was time for them to take over again[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Texas veterans returned home after World War II to find a State revolutionized by the wartime economy. Factories and training centers had become more important than farms and ranches, and the oil industry had branched out into high quality plastic[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
World War II fundamentally changed Texas both in her economic and her cultural sectors. The federal government needed factories, hospitals, schools, and military bases, and Texas had plenty of young men looking for better opportunities. Nearly a million of them[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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