Texas Political Analysis

In the 1800’s Texas was known to historically be a democratic state and voted accordingly. As time went on in the late 1900’s the state of Texas shifted from a democratic state to a mainly republican state. Reasons for this shift in political state view in due to a few different factors. One of them being a change in the economy, which caused a residential move and a change in the way people thought about things. Some people think that Texas is going to switch back to a democratically voting state. I agree with that statement as I too think that within the next two decades the political view of the entire state is going to shift back over to a democratic view and we will see the state turn from red to blue during the presidential election along with other voting sessions. One of the main reasons that I think we will see this shift in political views in this state is because of the large change in demographics we are seeing happen across our state. With a lot of immigration occurring from other countries the Democratic Party is growing. Majority of immigrants that move to Texas are joining the Democratic Party ass this party tenders to this group of people more than any other party. A large factor that plays with the immigration that occurs in Texas is the fact that Mexico and Texas border each other and most Mexican immigrants chose to live in Texas. Not all Mexican heritage immigrants choose to be in the Democratic Party. Some of them have Republican political views. A big problem that Mexican immigrants have with the Republican Party is that they do not support immigration as highly as the Democratic Part does. In the last Presidential election the Republican Nominee President Donald Trump had a slogan that stated “Build a wall and make America great again”. As one could …show more content…
Two states that I see more and more new Texas state residents re from California and Colorado. These two states are extremely highly populated by Democratic individuals and when they are moving to Texas they are still have the same political values and increase the amount of Texas residents that cast a vote in favor of the Democratic …show more content…
With Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio growing larger and larger each year it in turn is increasing the amount of Democratic followers each year. The amount of Democrats in large cities highly surpasses the amount of Republicans in larger cities. Most Republican voters live in smaller more agricultural based towns around the state. Whereas people who work for large corporations in cities are more than likely Democratic due to the fact that Democrats like to help the big corporations stay stronger and the smaller mom and pop shops stay smaller. (Toronto Star 2016) “Studies have proven that 8 out of every 10 residents in each states heaviest populated city will vote for the Democratic nominee.”
Although everyone has their own opinion on which party will dominate Texas in the future, the facts are there that prove Texas will soon be a blue state. Happy about it or not it’s going to take place in our generation. This is not to say that there will not be Republicans dominating parts of Texas but with the high amount of immigrants and individuals moving to Texas from states that are dominated by Democrats it’s clear to see what our future will