When it comes to the immigration overhaul debate, the U.S.-Mexico border states are different. Those four states – Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas – hold 27.5 million Hispanics, about half of the total U.S. Hispanic population. As the House of Representatives digs into immigration policy you might think those […] Read more »
Davis for governor of Texas? Don’t mess with it, Wendy
There seems to be an inherent human belief that, given sufficient audience, anyone can convince a majority of almost any position. It’s the reason you have any number of pundits claiming that President Obama needs only to talk more and more kindly to the American people and the Republican-controlled House […] Read more »
6 Questions For The Man Who Tracks Texas Trends
All this week, NPR is taking a look at the demographic changes that could reshape the political landscape in Texas over the next decade — and what that could mean for the rest of the country. Few know Texas’ population as well as its official demographer, Lloyd Potter, a professor […] Read more »
Democrats Face The Two States Of Texas: Urban And Rural
… What could be heartening for Democrats, who haven’t won a statewide race since the early days of the Clinton administration, is that the state is trending urban — and those places are starting to turn blue. The bad news is that they’re still getting clobbered in rural and exurban […] Read more »
Will Texas Become A Presidential Battleground?
With the two parties in Washington gridlocked on immigration, the budget and other issues, it’s easy to forget that when it comes to winning presidential elections, one party has a distinct advantage. “The Democrats have a significant advantage on the electoral map that gives them the inside track going into […] Read more »
Big Growth Could Shake Up Texas’ Old Political Equation
… Anglos are no longer the majority in Texas, and Hispanics are expected to outnumber Anglos within about a decade. … Democrats haven’t won a statewide election in Texas in almost two decades. But if they could capture a large share of that fast-growing Hispanic population — as they have […] Read more »