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This major work on Texas politics explores the complicated relations between the politically disorganized Texas blue-collar class and the "rich and the fabulously rich," whose interests have been protected by "brilliant practitioners of horse trading, guile, the jovial but serious threat, the offer that can't be refused."

Social classes --- Texas. --- Texas --- Race relations. --- Politics and government --- American Civil Liberties Union. --- Americans for Democratic Action (ADA). --- Associated Research Group (ARG). --- Association of Manufacturers. --- Bass Brothers Political Action Committee. --- Bass, Perry Richardson. --- Big Thicket National Preserve. --- Bracewell, Searcy. --- Broder, David. --- Calaway, Jim. --- Cancer Act of 1971. --- Carter, Jimmy. --- Civil Rights Act of 1960. --- Civil War. --- Common Cause. --- Compromise of 1877. --- Converse, Philip. --- Cowdrey, Joe. --- Dallas Citizens Council. --- Dies, Martin. --- Dukakis, Michael. --- Endangered Species Act. --- Farb, Harold. --- Fifteenth Amendment. --- Golden Triangle (Texas). --- Gompers, Samuel. --- Green, George Norris. --- Gulf States Utilities. --- Head Start program. --- Hollowell, Bill. --- Illuminati. --- Kilgore, Joe. --- LTV Corporation. --- La Raza Unida party. --- Landrum-Griffin Act. --- Leland, Mickey. --- Lindsay, Jon. --- Manion Forum. --- Mikulski Commission. --- Mikulski, Barbara. --- Mitchell, Stephen. --- National Rifle Association. --- Nolan, Joe. --- Olds, Greg. --- Padre Island National Seashore. --- Phillips Petroleum. --- depression of 1980s. --- farm workers. --- illegal immigrants. --- job safety measures. --- petroleum industry.