Texas Politics & Links
"Good thing we've still got
politics in Texas -- finest form of free entertainment ever invented." --
Molly
Ivins, Texas journalist & writer
"Senator Lloyd Bentsen, would say
that politics in the Lone Star State 'ain't bean bag.' Texas politics, he said
with a gleam in his patrician eyes, 'is a contact sport.'" --
Business Week Online
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Welcome to the Texas Politics & Links page. Click on the topic of your
choice for more information and links.
GOVT 2301 American Government I --
Texas
Topics:
Politics, Government &
Democracy
The Founding Philosophy & Texas Political
Culture
Federalism
Local Government
Collin County
Public Opinion & Political Socialization
Political Participation & Voting
Mass Media
Political Parties & Elections
Campaign Finance
Interest Groups
Regional Government
Texas State Issues
"Anyone who writes about Texas
politics, however, faces the problem known to religious ecstatics of trying to
explain an experience in terms that don't sound delusional." --
Lawrence Wright, "From
Texas, Coming Soon to a Statehouse Near You, New York Times, May 23,
2003
Source: State Archives
"In the meantime, while the country is
laughing at the antics of Texas politics, it should reflect on the fact that the
national political map is beginning to look a lot like that of Texas a few years
ago, when the last Democratic officeholders joined the dinosaurs."
-- Lawrence Wright, "From
Texas, Coming Soon to a Statehouse Near You, New York Times, May 23,
2003
Texas Online
Photo:
--Texas Dept of Transportation
"I don't
understand why anybody expects Latinos to be different than anyone else,"
said San Antonio Express-News columnist Carlos Guerra. "Texas politics is a
full-contact sport. Now it's a full-contact sport in two languages."
-- Gregory Rodriguez, "The
Mainstreaming of Latino Politics," Los Angeles Times, March 17,
2002.
The Window at Big Bend National Park
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