Can someone who understands Texas well help characterize the values and political behavior of it?
As an outsider, I only have incomplete impressions:
* Personal liberty is highly valued.
* Pro individual ownership of guns, as well as self-defense.
* Oil is a big part of the economy.
* Socially conservative overall, with exception of some enclaves of more liberal or progressive values.
* Large percentage of people identifying as Christian.
* Centralized editorial influence over school textbooks, for not just Texas but the nation.
* Aggressive anti-abortion push.
Apropos of this post, I'm interested in whether there are conventions over how conflicting values are reconciled (e.g., if anti-porn is driven by social conservative values, how does that override personal liberty values).
As an outsider, I only have incomplete impressions:
* Personal liberty is highly valued.
* Pro individual ownership of guns, as well as self-defense.
* Oil is a big part of the economy.
* Socially conservative overall, with exception of some enclaves of more liberal or progressive values.
* Large percentage of people identifying as Christian.
* Centralized editorial influence over school textbooks, for not just Texas but the nation.
* Aggressive anti-abortion push.
Apropos of this post, I'm interested in whether there are conventions over how conflicting values are reconciled (e.g., if anti-porn is driven by social conservative values, how does that override personal liberty values).