The Spirit of Collin County
Author | : Barry Benton |
Publisher | : HPN Books |
Total Pages | : 105 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1893619699 |
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Author | : Barry Benton |
Publisher | : HPN Books |
Total Pages | : 105 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1893619699 |
Author | : Robert J. Dillard |
Publisher | : University of North Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2023-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1574419196 |
The last of the Deep Southern states to secede, Texas experienced a cultural consolidation through the trauma of war and loss that has political relevance today. With the perceived indignities of Reconstruction, formerly pro-Union voices in the Texas Borderlands found themselves more culturally aligned with the former Confederacy by 1876, when the Texas Constitution was ratified. Two Counties in Crisis offers a rare opportunity to observe how local political cultures are transformed by state and national events. Utilizing an interdisciplinary fusion of history and political science, Robert J. Dillard analyzes two disparate Texas counties—traditionalist Harrison County and individualist Collin County—and examines four Reconstruction governors (Hamilton, Throckmorton, Pease, Davis) to aid the narrative and provide additional cultural context. Commercially prosperous and built on slave labor in the mold of Deep South plantation culture, East Texas’s Harrison County strongly supported secession in 1861. West Texas’s Collin County, characterized by individual and family farms with a limited slave population, favored the Union. During Reconstruction Collin County became increasingly conservative and eventually bore a great resemblance to Harrison County in its social, cultural, and political leanings. By 1876 and the ratification of the regressive Texas Constitution, Collin County had become firmly resistant to all aspects of Reconstruction. Both counties found themselves enculturated with the rest of the state, establishing for Texas an identity as a former Confederate state that has persisted for generations. The reactionary Texas Constitution of 1876, written as a backlash against perceived Northern radicalism, ultimately dismantled state education, reduced the state tax base, and spawned a legal black hole of amendments that Texans remain stuck with today. Overwhelmingly ratified by popular vote, the suboptimal Texas Constitution was not solely the product of political maneuverings from the economic elite, but a collective refusal of federal Reconstruction supported at the local level, where the politics of fear and group polarization had transformed former Unionists into die-hard rebels.
Author | : Ken Hudnall |
Publisher | : Omega Press |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780962608797 |
This is the fifth volume of the Spirits of the Border Series covering all hauntings and unsolved mysteries in the State of Texas.
Author | : Pamela Sustar |
Publisher | : HPN Books |
Total Pages | : 89 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1893619877 |
An illustrated history of Fort Myers and Lee County, Florida, paired with histories of the local companies.
Author | : Donald R. Abbe |
Publisher | : HPN Books |
Total Pages | : 125 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1893619907 |
Author | : John E. Harkins |
Publisher | : HPN Books |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1893619869 |
Author | : Paulette Jean Weiser |
Publisher | : HPN Books |
Total Pages | : 121 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 189361977X |
An illustrated history of Hancock County, Ohio, paired with histories of the local companies.