Agenda

• Today

    - Announcements
    - Exam 2 results
    - Exam 2 Extra Credit
    - Texas Culture and Politics basics

• Wednesday

    - Texas Constitution basics

Announcements

• Participation today is going to include some anonymous questions about the current election
• The final question will be for the participation point and won’t be anonymous (also not about the election)
• It will start right after the Exam Extra Credit and run until we get to the last question

Exam 2 Results: Distribution of Percentage

Exam 2 Results: Distribution of Grades

Exam Results Overall

  Exams.Total Participation.Total Inquizitives.Total
1       75.33              100.00              86.67
2       81.11              100.00              80.13
3       85.56              100.00              83.67
4       81.85               93.75              86.67
5       81.30               81.25              76.53
6       93.33              100.00              86.67

Exam Results Overall

Exam Reulults Overall

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                        Dependent variable:    
                    ---------------------------
                            Exams.Total        
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Participation.Total           0.103**          
                              (0.046)          
                                               
Inquizitives.Total           0.344***          
                              (0.061)          
                                               
Constant                     36.183***         
                              (4.669)          
                                               
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Observations                    245            
R2                             0.219           
Adjusted R2                    0.213           
Residual Std. Error      11.860 (df = 242)     
F Statistic           33.976*** (df = 2; 242)  
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Note:               *p<0.1; **p<0.05; ***p<0.01

Exam Results Overall

Exam 2 Extra Credit

• Open Point Solutions
• If you have any problems, see me after class before leaving
• Once we all leave the room, results stand

Participation points

• Open Point Solutions
• If you have any problems, see me after class before leaving
• Once we all leave the room, results stand

Political Culture of Texas

• Diverse political culture has two themes that are shared across party, ethnic, and religious lines

    - Individualism
    - Traditionalism

Individualism

• Grew from multiple sources

    - Frontier experience of self-reliance
    - Settlers looking for Economic opportunity (this continues today)
    - American Revolutionary ideals

Traditionalism

• Grew from multiple sources

    - Frontier experience of neighbors cooperating especially through churches
    - Provincialism 
    - Business dominance

The cultures and partisan politics

• Before the 1990s, the Democratic Party appealed successfully to these cultures
• Since 1990, the Republicans social conservative wing has connected with Texan’s traditionalism
• The Republicans business oriented wing has connected with Texan’s individualism
• The national Democratic Party difficulty connecting: notable exceptions such as the Clintons and Obama

Regions of Texas

Regions of Texas map

Regions of Texas

Permian Basin map

The cultures and geography

• Traditionalism

    - Interior Lowlands
    - Great Plains
    - Gulf Coastal Plains & Basin regiona - outside urban areas

Things to consider in Texas political culture

• If we were going to have writing assignments, these are some questions I might ask. Why?

Things to consider in Texas political culture

• If we were going to have writing assignments, these are some questions I might ask. Why?

• If you consider these questions using the textbook, you will better grasp the concepts and be better prepared for the exam.

Things to consider in Texas political culture

Moral to the story: Consider questions like these as you are reading and doing the Inquizitives.

Reviewing the Chapter outlines first may give you other questions to focus on when working on the chapter.

Things to consider in Texas political culture

• Individualism: Consider the following?

    - the specifics vary but this is a fundamental characteristic of Texas culture
    - What about variation among demographic groups? Is there any or is this a commonality?       
    - Native Texans and newly arrived Texans?

Things to consider in Texas political culture

• Traditionalism and Individualism can be in conflict

    - How does this play out in Texas politics?
    - How does this play out in Texas policy?
    - How does this play out in Texas political parties?

• Do Traditionalism and Individualism always conflict or can they reinforce each other?

    - When does traditionalism encourage self-reliance?
    - When traditionalism encourages community cooperation, does that encourage or discourage individualism compared to reliance on state or federal government?

Authorship and License

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• Author: Tom Hanna

• Website: tomhanna.me

• License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.