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Dreamers of big dreams, the Buntons were also, to an extent somewhat unusual among Texas frontier families, interested in ideas and abstractions. John Bunton was one of the founders of the short-lived Philosophical Society of Texas, which was formed in 1837 to explore “topics of interest which our new and rising republic unfolds to the philosopher,
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Spanish Texas, 1519–1821: Revised Edition (Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas Heritage Series Book 14)
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Tommy Corcoran was often the instrument through which the President intervened in state elections to help candidates he favored; like Rowe, Corcoran tries to explain that Roosevelt’s intervention in Texas in 1941 was something special. “In that 1941 race, we gave him everything we could,” Corcoran says. “Everything.”
Robert A. Caro • The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson I
Buchanan quotes the Dallas Morning News as projecting that “fewer than half of Texans will be white” by 2005, and the implication is obvious. In fact Texas is over 70 percent white according to the 2010 census.
