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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“We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)
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—Alexander Herzen (1812–1870)
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—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)