DBWI: Texas and California switch fates?
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Hm. Well, the massive drive of migrant workers to Texas back during the during the dust bowl years in California and the upper Mid Western states brought a lot of people that were eager to work with unions for better payment from land owners.
Perhaps if you have the dust bowl occur farther south than west, you would have a larger movement of migrants to the west, rather than the south west.
Perhaps if you have the dust bowl occur farther south than west, you would have a larger movement of migrants to the west, rather than the south west.
I think Augustus has a point. The growth of Liberation Theology in the 60s and 70s among the Hispanic-American Catholics that make up, what, 40% of Texas' population, definitely dragged that state to the left. The state Democratic Party engaging with "frontier socialism" in the 30s under Huey "Lone Star" Long probably helped too.
One hugh step toward this switch could have occured during the 19-teens. Remember that it was during that decade when, due to the significant labor & financial difficulties plaguing the west coast (California0 film industry, film makers in San Antonio and later in Dallas began turning Texas into the "movie capital of the world". Prior to their troubles and even briefly afterwards it looked as though California was going to become the locus of the industry. What if the west coast ascendancy had continued? If the glitz, glamor, greed, filth and self-absorption which pervades and characterises the modern entertainment industry were in California rarther than Texas, the political compass of these states could very well be reversed.