Essay On Texas Political Culture

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According to our books, lectures and discussions from class, political culture is the values, attitudes, traditions, habits and general behavioral patterns. Political culture reflects the political values and beliefs of people. This explains how people feel about their government. It is developed by historical experience over generations. Texas’ political culture is conservative. Conservative is the system of ideas highlighted by the belief in a limited role for the government in taxation, economic regulation, and providing social services.

There are a few different approaches that have been used to study diversity in nations, regions, states, and communities. Texas is considered to be a mixture of traditional and individualistic cultures. Texans see politics largely as the domain of economic interest. There's a mix of three distant subcultures each prevalent in at least one area of the United States. Moralistic Culture views the government as a positive force which holds the values of the individual but functions for the benefit of the general public. In this culture the government provides public service and its ties to the rights and wrongs in politics. Individualistic Culture embodies …show more content…

These physical regions are the Gulf Coastal Plains, the Interior Lowlands, the Great Plains and the Basin and Range Plains. Texas’ Gulf Coastal Plain is located in the western extension of Texas. In the Gulf Coastal Plain, you have areas that are within these plains and they are Pine Belt, Post Oak Belt, Blacland Belt, Coastal Prairies, Lower Rio Grande Valley and the Rio Grande Plain. This region is also close by the Gulf of Mexico near Galveston which is where the name Gulf Coastal Plain comes from. Next you have the Interior Lowlands. The Lowlands are located toward the North region of Texas. This region includes West Texas Rolling Plains, Grand Prairie, Eastern Cross Timbers and Western Cross Timbers. The third

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