Texas is a state that is widely regarded as one of the most conservative in the union, a claim that is not entirely unfounded. One of the causes that Texas conservatives are currently fighting against is the funding of public radio and television. MatthewHuisman of The Dallas Morning News recently had a news story on the issue,http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2011/03/house-passes-bill-to-defund-np.html, citing local representatives on their opinions on this matter. In the article, Huisman writes “NPR officials dispute the idea that their news coverage is slanted. Supporters note that the stations also carry entirely nonpartisan entertainment programming such as Car Talk, and that many rural areas, in particular, depend on public radio.”. Texas conservatives voting to defund public broadcasting is great evidence of the overall political climate in the state of Texas. I believe the movement to defund public broadcasting is one of the most hard line conservative positions one can take in this country. public broadcasting only constitutes a tiny, tiny fraction of the taxes that a citizen pays in a year and goes very far to educate the public as a whole. It would take a true believer in the anti-taxation beliefs of the American Conservatives to vote against the nation’s public broadcasting.

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