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- Title
"THE VOICE OF MANY HATREDS:" J. EVETTS HALEY AND TEXAS ULTRACONSERVATISM.
- Authors
Huntington, John S
- Abstract
As an ultraconservative activist and occasional political candidate in Texas, J. Evetts Haley registered few electoral victories. However, his farright crusades revealed nationwide right-wing discontent within the Democratic Party and delineated the anti-statist contours of ultraconservatism from the 1930s through the 1960s. Haley's combination of white supremacy, conspiracy theories, anti-statist populism and rugged individualism reflected the extremities of agrarianism, Cold War anticommunism and Old Right conservatism. Put simply, Haley constituted an explanatory link bridging anti-New Deal ultraconservatism and the mid-century conservative movement; in addition, he represented a point of convergence between Sunbelt reactionaries and mainstream conservatism. In 1936 Haley chaired the Jeffersonian Democrats of Texas, a state chapter of a national organization that sought to defeat Roosevelt by supporting Republican Alf Landon, despite the predominance of the Texas Democratic Party. The Jeffersonian's failure forecast the electoral inefficacy-but grassroots appeal-of mid-century far-right conservatism. During the 1950s Haley fomented fringe movements through his gubernatorial candidacy and the ultraconservative group Texans For America (TFA), but his hardline platforms restricted the success of both. Haley's time with TFA elicited his most fruitful activism, but his attacks against Lyndon Johnson in 1964 cemented Haley as a national far-right icon.
- Subjects
UNITED States; HALEY, J. Evetts; CONSERVATISM; 20TH century Texas state history; DEMOCRATIC Party (Tex.); ANTI-communist movements; UNITED States history; TEXAS state politics &; government; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY of conservatism; 20TH century United States history
- Publication
Western Historical Quarterly, 2018, Vol 49, Issue 1, p65
- ISSN
0043-3810
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/whq/whx105