Future
Texas, like California, is now a minority-majority state. This means that non-Hispanic/Anglo whites no-longer make up 50.1% or more of the population. This has been predominantly down to the booming Hispanic population, which accounted for 37.6% of the state's population in the latest census (compared to 45.3% for non-Hispanic/ Anglo whites).
The state's changing demographics may well result in a change in its overall political persuasion. With Hispanic and Latino voters currently overwhelming supporting the Democratic Party, Texas may eventually become a tossup state in presidential elections and turn blue for the first time since 1976. This said, in a recent article, Mark Yzaguirre, has questioned this assumption through highlighting Governor Rick Perry's courting of 39% of Hispanics in his victory in the 2010 Texas Gubernatorial.
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“Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.”
—Fred Rogers (20th century)
“Perhaps if the future existed, concretely and individually, as something that could be discerned by a better brain, the past would not be so seductive: its demands would be balanced by those of the future. Persons might then straddle the middle stretch of the seesaw when considering this or that object. It might be fun.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“It lives less in the present
Than in the future always,
And less in both together
Than in the past.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)