Deck 2: Texas: The Myth Vs the Reality

Question 1

The regional political culture that Texas shares with most of the South is called:

A) traditional
B) federal
C) republican
D) minimalist

Answer 1

A

Question 2

The prominent University of Texas historian who wrote Reconstruction in Texas (1910), arguing that Texas had deep southern roots, was:

A) George P. Garrison
B) Charles W. Ramsdell
C) Randolph B. Campbell
D) Don Graham

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Which Texas Democratic Governor supported the Republican candidate for president, Dwight Eisenhower, in 1952 and 1956?

A) James Ferguson
B) James Stephen Hogg
C) John Connally
D) Allan Shivers

Answer 3

D

Question 4

The most devastating economic collapse in Texas since the Great Depression occurred in:

A) the mid-1970s
B) the early 1980s
C) the late 1980s
D) the late 1990s

Question 5

Robert Solow's explanation for the closing of the wealth and income gaps between rich and poor states is called"

A) convergence
B) equalization
C) submergence
D) harmonization

Question 6

Texas job growth, usually very strong, slowed in which decade?

A) 1970s
B) 1980s
C) 1990s
D) 2000s

Question 7

Where did Texas rank among the states in 2018 on median family income (1=richest, 51=poorest)?

A) 9^th
B) 29^th
C) 39^th
D) 49^th

Question 8

Since 2010, which of the following states has experienced more rapid population growth than Texas:

A) Utah
B) California
C) New York
D) Illinois

Question 9

Which state has the largest share of its citizens without health insurance?

A) California
B) Texas
C) Alabama
D) Maryland

Question 10

Which state currently ranks as the wealthiest of the 50 states?

A) California
B) Texas
C) Connecticut
D) Illinois

Question 11

Over the course of the 19^th century, what proportion of Texans were born in the South or born in Texas of southern stock?

A) 70 percent
B) 80 percent
C) 90 percent
D) 100 percent

Question 12

The University of Texas opened in:

A) 1836
B) 1946
C) 1883
D) 1913

Question 13

The University of North Texas historian who wrote An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas was:

A) Randolph B. Campbell
B) Charles W. Ramsdell
C) Glen Sample Ely
D) Laura Lyons McLemore

Question 14

What proportion of Texans lived west of the Balcones Escarpment in 2010?

A) 3 percent
B) 14 percent
C) 27 percent
D) 43 percent

Question 15

Many Texas Democrats supported this Republican presidential nominee in 1952 and 1956:

A) Sam Rayburn
B) John Connally
C) Ronald Reagan
D) Dwight Eisenhower

Question 16

All but which of the following legal devices were used to limit minority voting into the 1960s:

A) literacy tests
B) early registration
C) white primary
D) poll tax

Question 17

The dominant model of state income growth is named for what Nobel prize-winning economist?

A) Milton Friedman
B) John Maynard Keynes
C) Joseph Stiglitz
D) Robert Solow

Question 18

In 1950, Texas ranked 30^th among the states in median family income. Where did Texas rank in 2018? (1=richest, 51=poorest)

A) 9^th
B) 29^th
C) 39^th
D) 49^th

Question 19

The value that a worker produces in a period of time, like a week or a year, is called?

A) Net worth
B) Wealth
C) Productivity
D) Gross Domestic Product

Question 20

The statistic employed to measure the degree of income inequality between nations or states within a nation is:

A) correlation coefficient
B) Gini index
C) Poverty index
D) Salvatori index

Question 21

Where did Texas spending per pupil in public schools rank in 20108? (1=highest, 51=lowest)

A) 12^th
B) 22^th
C) 32^nd
D) 42^nd

Question 22

Where did Texas rank over the past decade on the proportion of its adult population holding a high school diploma? (1=highest, 51=lowest)

A) 20^th
B) 30^th
C) 40^th
D) 50^th

Question 23

Who was the prominent mid-20^th century political scientist who predicted the rise of a competitive two-party politics in Texas?

A) Robert Solow
B) V.O. Key
C) H.W. Brands
D) Rick Perry

Question 24

The Supreme Court case that declared the white primary unconstitutional in 1944 was:

A) Smith v. Allwright
B) Seaman v. Upham
C) U.S. v. Texas
D) Fisher v. Texas

Question 25

How many times did Rick Perry win races for statewide office in TexasGovernor Greg Abbott's "Texas Plan" called for a[n]?

A) Oil embargo
B) Investigation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
C) Constitutional Convention
D) Border wall

Question 26

What is at stake culturally, politically, and economically in seeing Texas as a western or southwestern state as opposed to a southern state?

Question 27

What problems might an unchanging set of cultural values pose for a state like Texas that has undergone great social and economic change since WW II?

Question 28

If "the Texas way" has not produced steep gains in income, education, health, and public safety since 1950, in what sense is Texas a model for other states and the nation?

Question 29

What is it about western or southwestern, as opposed to southern, cultural roots that some Texans find more attractive?

Question 30

What forces led many Texas Democrats to support the Republican Dwight Eisenhower for president in 1952 and 1956?

Question 31

Describe the logic behind Robert Solow's model of comparative state and regional growth.

Question 32

Explain why voter registration and voter turnout rates are lower for Texas Hispanics than they are for blacks and Anglos.

Question 33

How many times and for what offices did Rick Perry win statewide races in Texas?

Question 34

Dwight Eisenhower was twice elected president in the 1950s.

Question 35

President John Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on March 15, 1961.

Question 36

Texas has led the nation in reduction of teen pregnancy rates.

Question 37

The Texas incarceration rate has increased sharply since the 1950s.

Question 38

Blacks in Texas register to vote at higher rates than Hispanics.

Question 39

_______is the concept used to describe the basic or fundamental values Texans hold about society and government.

Question 40

The_______is the geological rift that runs from the Big Bend region to San Antonio and north to the Red River, dividing the state approximately in half.

Question 41

John Kennedy defeated_______for president in the 1960 election.

Question 42

The Nobel prize-winning economist who developed the convergence theory of state and regional income growth is_______

Question 43

The statistic commonly used to measure income inequality among nations and among states within a nation is the _______

Question 44

Who is the general manager of the Coyote Lake Feedlot in Muleshoe, TexasWho was the Governor of Texas riding with President Kennedy on the day he was assassinated _______

Question 45

The federal judge responsible for many of the top civil rights cases contested in Texas in the second half of the 20^th century was _______