TEXAS...Red to the Roots Republican

by Ken Gardner

Texas Republican gubernatorial
election results by county (2010).

According to Gallup, Texas won't be going blue anytime soon. We have the second biggest Hispanic population of any state, but they are 11% less Democratic than the national average.

Meanwhile, white voters are 13% more Republican than the national average.
The best news of all? Hispanics in Texas today are more Republican than they were in 2008.

Texas is what happens when we have a state Republican party with an inclusive attitude towards Hispanics.

We didn't make the mistakes the California GOP made during the 1980s and 1990s. I'm still old enough to remember that California was once a reliably Republican state in presidential elections.

White Texans Continue to Flock to the Republican Party

While Texas has a sizeable proportion of Hispanics living in its borders, nearly half of the population (46%) is non-Hispanic white. This group has grown more heavily Republican over the past five years, a fact that no doubt contributed to President Obama's large 2012 defeat in Texas, larger even than his 2008 drubbing. Currently, 61% of white Texans identify or lean Republican, up four points from 2008. White Texans are also far more likely to identify or lean Republican than are whites living in other states, 48% of which tilt Republican. During this same time period, the overall U.S. white population increased from 44% self-identifying or leaning Republican in 2008 to 48% in 2013.

Source www.gallup.com

Political Preferences by Race - Among those living in Texas and elsewhere.

Ken Gardner is a contributing writer to Dyed in the Wool Republican.