Texas future in elections

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So far, the Texas GOP has avoided alienating/infuriating Hispanics in the way, say, the California Republicans did. They've managed to put together a decent bench of Hispanic politicians at the local level, particularly in the Corpus Christi area.

The Republicans' weakness in Texas is their supermajority status in the Legislature. You can't have that big of a party without developing cracks that the other side can exploit. Republicans played liberal and conservative Democrats off one another in the '70s and '80s. By the '90s, the conservative Democrats were gone.

If the Democrats are smart, they'll use the Republicans' suburban-rural divide against them on issues like transportation and water resources (which are going to be a serious issue here in coming years). Rural Republicans here don't share the same visceral hatred of public spending that the ones in the suburbs do because they know government is what fixes their roads and what's going to make sure they have enough water for their crops and livestock. They don't live in the voluntaryist world of private schools and gated communities funded by user fees and private security guards like the suburbanites do.