Texas is currently a very “red” state with Republicans consistently controlling the legislature and winning all statewide offices. This was not always so. The Democrats dominated Texas politics from the end of Reconstruction well into the 1990s with Republicans failing to win a single seat in Texas for almost 100 years. Why the Democrats were so dominant and why that changed are important parts of Texas & American political history. The graphs below document the long domination of Texas politics by the Democrats and show the slow and then sudden rise of the Republican party in the state.
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