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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Ten to fifteen years and my raza will have won Texas back from the gringos by sheer numbers. We tend to vote Democrat, though we have our anomolies every now and then. With Austin, Houston, San Antonio and the Valley sympathetic to the Dems, I wouldn't count on Texas being a Republican stronghold forever. That's why the whole redistricting fight was so nasty.
Hell, until Clinton appointed Bensten to secretary of the Treasury back in '92, we were pretty evenly split in the US Congress, state-wide offices and the legislature. The whole Bensten nomination caused a massive reorging by the Dems and they weren't able to hold on to that Senate seat, and then later the governorship, and then the rest of statewide offices. It wasn't until last year that the legislature fell into Replublican hands.
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The Bentsen thing was very sad; there were so many high-profile Texas Dems who looked like emerging national figures (Anne Richards, Cisneros, Hightower), and all that seems to be pretty much gone.
I think you are right on the trends, and I also think that the Dems will pretty much concede Texas to Bush this time around, but will be trying to make it competitive from 2008 onwards.
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