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Color Association of the United States (Formerly Textile Color Card Association of New York, Inc.): Blue: Yale Blue, cable number 70086, Standard Color Card of America, 9th edition. Gold: Golden Yellow, cable number 65001, United States Army Card of Official Colors for Arms and Services. ISCC–NBS system: Yale Blue: Deep purplish blue.
For maps of future elections, "hold" is used for "incumbent intent is known and is eligible, or incumbent is running for re-election", whereas "gain" is used for "incumbent is retiring/term-limited". Following this, there is an additional color used, which is also used when an election has taken place but not been called yet.
The advent of color television in America during the late 1950s and early 1960s prompted television news reporters to rely on color-coded electoral maps, though sources conflict as to the conventions they used. One source claims that in the elections prior to 2000 every state that voted for Democratic candidates but one had been coded red.
Latest version follows color clarifications published in 2017. Earlier versions of the file go back to 11 September 2005. Source: SVG implementation of U. S. Code: Title 4, Chapter 1, Section 1 (the United States Federal “Flag Law”).
In their book, Texas Politics Today 2009-2010, authors Maxwell, Crain, and Santos attribute Texas' traditionally low voter turnout among whites to these influences. [4] But beginning in the early 20th century, voter turnout was dramatically reduced by the state legislature's disenfranchisement of most blacks, and many poor whites and Latinos.
Texas is placed in the Southern United States by the United States Census Bureau. [1] The Republic of Texas joined the United States as the 28th state on December 29, 1845. Texas joined the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War from 1861 to 1865 but was readmitted to the Union in 1870.
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