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In Texas, however, determined sign-up campaigns by both parties and the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project nearly tripled the number of registered Hispanics, from 488,000 to 1,132,000, between the 1976 and 1984 elections. Their votes supplied the margin of victory for Democratic Governor Mark White in...
Clements wasn't ornery when we talked in his office. He looked like a scholar surrounded by his books, like a scholar who had known action somewhere; a Harry Truman or John Wooden. "Free spirit, high energy, risk taking, the strength of one's convictions-that's...
He called Dallas a frontier. He talked about the 1820s, when his people first came to Texas. Land was grabbed up at 10? an acre. Now the new entrepreneurs occupy office buildings instead of ranges. But there is more than that to Dallas. People are taken at face value here...
"There's a message here," said Clements. "It has to do with the work ethic. We believe in hard work. Dallasites are very generous, give millions to every charity you can name. But they don't believe in the dole." I told Clements about a Texas delegate from...
Sunday evening I went to a church service. Pentecostal; the kind of church the more sedate denominations seem to look down on. But the Pentecostalists explicitly advocate the hard work Clements was talking about. And most Pentecostalists are likely to vote Republican. Besides, they can really sing.