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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—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)
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—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)