Red State

Wayne Thorburn talked about his book, Red State: An Insider’s Story of How the GOP Came to Dominate Texas Politics, about how Texas has evolved into a Republican stronghold since the mid-twentieth century.

C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their “2014 LCV Cities Tour” in Austin, Texas, from December 2-6, to feature the history and literary life of the community. Working with the Time Warner Cable local affiliate, they visited literary and historic sites where local historians, authors, and civic leaders were interviewed. The history segments air on American History TV (AHTV) on C-SPAN3 and the literary events/non-fiction author segments air on BookTV on C-SPAN2. close