Describe Your Congressional District

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Birth district and current home district: TX-03
PVI: R+13
Rep: Sam Johnson (Samuel Robert Johnson) (1991-present)
Previous Rep: Steve Bartlett (1983-1991)
2016 General Election: Sam Johnson (R) 61.2%; Adam Bell (R) 34.6%
2014 General Election: Sam Johnson (R) 82%; Paul Blair (Green) 18%
2016 POTUS: Donald Trump: 55%; Hillary Clinton: 41%
2012 POTUS: Mitt Romney: 63%; Barack Obama: 34%
Racial demographic: 61.4% white, 14.5% hispanic, 12.6% asian, 8.6% black, 2.8% mixed/other
Largest city: Plano (286,057 in 2016)
Major universities: Collin College, SMU-in-Plano, DBU North
The last Democrat to represent TX-03 in Congress was Joe Pool, who was highly influential in providing funding for the 7,740 acre-lake that now bears his name. It elected James Collins in a 1968 special election, and since it has been represented by Collins till 1983, Bartlett from 1983 to 1991, and Johnson till present day. Johnson is the sole Vietnam vet still in the US House of Representatives (he's 86, and he's announced his retirement).

TX-03 was one of the first areas in Texas to begin electing Republicans. The sprawl-y suburbs of Dallas were affluent, and saw little reason to not vote Republican. During this time, TX-03 was based in northern Dallas County. The meteoric growth of Collin County resulted in TX-03 moving more and more to the north, and losing more and more of its share of Dallas County. In 2013, it became entirely in Collin County. TX-03 is likely to shrink even more in 2020.

TX-03 is the home of many corporate headquarters and big corporate offices, like such as Alliance Data, Cinemark Theatres, Dell Services, Denbury Resources, Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Ericsson, Frito-Lay, HP Enterprise Services, J. C. Penney, Pizza Hut, Rent-A-Center, Siemens PLM Software, and Toyota Motors USA.

But not all of it is archetypical rich McMansion suburbia like this.

There are poor sections of the district. These are concentrated in places like Eastern Plano. However, the CD overall is your typical rich McMansion suburban district, and the poor parts are kind of irrelevant; median income is around $84,000.