Description:
In defining a distinctive rural, middle-American "Panhandle conservatism," You Will Never Be One of Us extends the study of the conservative movement beyond the suburbs of the Sunbelt and expands our understanding of a continuing, perhaps deepening, rift in American political culture.
Brief description:
Timothy Paul Bowman is Associate Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at West Texas A&M University in Canyon and the author of Blood Oranges: Colonialism and Agriculture in the South Texas Borderlands.
Review Quotes: "Bowman successfully demonstrates that understanding the roots of radical rural conservatism in the Texas Panhandle illuminates the larger development of American Far Right conservatism in the twenty-first century. Bowman's final words sum the book up well: "Hereford, Texas, was never really isolated at all - it was the center of everything."--Journal of Southern History