Erica Grieder's book Big, Hot, Cheap and Right: What America Can Learn From the Strange Genius of Texas lays out an interesting case for why the Texas miracle of this young century is worth looking at.
Ms. Grieder's story digs deeper than just the past decade or the Perry era, deep into Texas history, showing that Perry's success goes beyond just his own policy. The first aspect that she discusses is Texas history, in which limited government became ingrained in most Texans DNA. From the beginning of the Texas story, most Texans were governed by incompetency. During rule under Mexican dictator Santa Anna, Texas's brief history with the confederacy and reconstruction after the Civil War, Texans saw government at its worst. Ms. Grieder makes the point that many Texans found themselves depending upon each other as opposed to a central government, and when given a chance to write their constitution, they