Throughout the state of Texas, there are many political problems, and they all revolve around one central idea. In Texas's case, some bases of their politics are a mixture between classical liberalism, social conservatism, and populism ("Political Culture and Political Ideology in Texas"). Classical liberalism consists of "doing your own thing", and is elaborated as political freedom as well as civil liberty independence ("Political Culture and Political Ideology in Texas"). Social conservatism is based on the traditional way of doing things, which explains why the Republican Party has had the majority vote, since Texas has always been historically Republicans ("Political Culture and Political Ideology …show more content…
Populism is similar to the representation of the "middle child". This ideology serves as the buffer between classical liberalism and social conservation; therefore, relieving the tensions amongst the two ("Political Culture and Political Ideology in Texas"). Also, populism stages to be "the people" of an issue; like democracy, populism gives the citizens their wanted inputs ("Political Culture and Political Ideology in Texas"). Along with the ideologies, there are many different beliefs in Texas that other states might not agree with. With the recent nationally passed approval of same-sex marriage, Texas responded and fought to keep it unlawful in the state of Texas, but eventually they lost (Espinoza). Although Texas proposed over 20 anti-LGBTQ laws, they were shot down by the nation's government (Stein). With this disapproval, Texas passed a state law that protects pastors from being required to marry gay and lesbians (Stein); therefore, demonstrating the social conservatism aspect of Texas, by protecting the states tradition of not allowing same-sex marriage. With the world constantly changing, we cannot be