Examples Of Political Subculture

It is commonly understood that the perceived culture in Texas is traditional, meaning that we do it the way our grandfathers did it and change can only bring bad results. The individualistic beliefs of state politics can be seen in the support for private business, opposition to big government, and the individual is the important person and anybody else is of little or no importance. Through these ideas, the political subculture of Texas will be defined.

Political Subcultures are widely shared ideas of how the government should function, and work. Political subcultures are important because it allows for a backbone against which politics unravels. It builds up the external furthest reaches of what is conceivable, or even plausible, in the political world. There are three fundamental political subculture categories, which are traditionalistic, moralistic, and individualistic.

These three categories are different in numerous ways, for example, how they were created, the main concept of each culture, and how the government should run, (based on the categories). The traditionalistic beliefs of state politics in Texas are shown by the long history of one-party dominance in the state's politics, the low level of voter turnout, and social and economic conservatism.

Since gaining its

independence from Mexico, political parties were slow to form in Texas, than in the United States. During that time, Texas was an independent nation, known as the Republic of Texas, did not have any political party. Texas, since its becoming a state in 1845 had maintained only one political party, and it was Democratic party. However, in 1867, the military leaders continued to command over Texas, after the civil war was over, continued on to get Republican control of the state and succeeded. Between 1874- 1994, Democrats won the the party, and held party dominance. Between 1944, to present time, Texas Government is held by Republican Party dominance.
A Traditionalistic culture is originated from the values of social hierarchy. Traditionalistic focus is on sticking to tradition, and maintaining the social order. Meaning, Government is run by money from wealthy families, as it has been. Moralistic culture is created from the ideas of New England Puritanism. The “common good, is everyone’s concern.” Believing the government should keep everyone's best interests alive, and focus on the general well being of the public.
The individualistic culture concentrates more on business achievement. Individualistic societies trust that government should to give order and protect property. Additionally, this subculture does not raise much of a concern in political participation.
One may state that Texas is a traditionalistic culture, while another may state that Texas is an individualistic culture.

However, Texas is best depicted as a Traditionalistic individualistic culture. There are examples that make Texas a traditionalistic- individualistic culture. These examples are: Texas is a one party state, provincialism, and business centered. Texas consistently maintained one party for many centuries. For a century after Reconstruction, the Democratic Party reigned over on all levels of state government. The Republican party now runs Texas government. We, however do not know to what extent Republicans will continue being the dominant party in

Texas.
Another example of that makes Texas a traditionalistic-individualistic culture is provincialism. Provincialism is a restricted, constrained, and self-intrigued perspective of the world. Provincialism is related with the Jeffersonian ideas of constrained government and rustic
qualities. The social administrations and instruction consumptions were low. Today we don't see provincialism rather there are uses for training and social administrations. The developing minorities, women, LGBTQ, and urbanization have cut provincialism.
The third example that makes Texas a traditionalistic individualistic culture is business dominance. There are not many workers parties in Texas, predominately just in the oil refineries. Consumer and ecological concerns are not particularly persuasive.
As mentioned previously, Texas, like other states is considered to be placed in both political subcultures. Texas falls under a traditionalistic-individualistic culture. Texas' political culture can be difficult to characterize for various of reasons. Texas is an extensive state making it difficult to characterize the political subculture, or rather to categorize it under one subculture. Texas' political culture is continually changing, and that contributes to the main reason why it makes it hard for Texas to have one and only one political culture. Texas has a unique culture based on traditionalistic values that cherishes individualistic achievements.