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United States portal. Texas portal. v. t. e. For about a hundred years, from after Reconstruction until the 1990s, the Democratic Party dominated Texas politics, making it part of the Solid South. In a reversal of alignments, since the late 1960s, the Republican Party has grown more prominent. By the 1990s, it became the state's dominant ...
The 89th Texas Legislative Session is set to open on Jan. 14, 2025 in Austin, and legislators on both sides of the aisle are certainly expecting social, financing and public policy battles ahead.
Both messages, he said, provide Republicans opportunities to make gains in South Texas, and perhaps even make inroads in the Democratic stronghold of Austin. Republicans flipped a South Texas ...
Prior to 2008, with the exception of Austin/Travis and San Antonio/Bexar (the latter a former bellwether/swing county and the former a liberal stronghold), all of these cities/counties were conservative strongholds, having voted for Republican presidential candidates from the 1960s through 2004.
A gradual trend towards increasing social liberalism in the Democratic Party, however, has turned the state (apart from Hispanic South Texas, the Trans-Pecos, and several large cities) into generally a Republican stronghold. Since 1980, Texas has voted for the Republican nominee in every presidential election. Winners of the state are in bold.
Much of the opening day speeches were designed to motivate the party activists to keep Texas in the Republican column in the upcoming Nov. 5 elections. Texas Republicans open their convention as ...
As the largest Republican stronghold in the country, Romney won Texas with 57.17%, over Obama's 41.38%, a margin of 15.79%. As in past elections, Obama and the Democrats dominated the Rio Grande Valley , winning upwards of 70% or 80% of the vote in most of these counties, with his best performance in Starr County at 86.34% to Romney's 13.02%, a ...
September 5, 2024 at 2:04 PM. AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas Republican who survived a primary assault from his own party’s right wing said Thursday that the GOP is on track to lose the House in ...