Texas will shift to (D) within a couple elections with the huge influx of California residents.
Yep. Democrats are moving to red states. Hooray? I don’t see anything to cheer about here.
California refugees have been pouring into Texas since the 1980s. They have managed to turn all of the metropolitan areas democrat but are still a long way from turning the state.
In fact, the opposite has occurred. Texas was democrat controlled from Reconstruction until the 1990s. When Ann Richards was elected Governor in 1990, nearly all of the statewide elected offices were held by democrats. When Bush beat her in 1994, most of the other state offices also went to Republicans. Since then, very few democrats have been elected to statewide offices.
A bigger concern than the California refugees are all of the illegal aliens flooding the border. Fortunately, Mexican-American citizens in Texas are far more conservative than the illegal aliens, which is why the democrats are doing everything they can to allow the illegals to vote.
There is no question that democrats are regaining power in the state, mainly through their control of the major cities, but it is unlikely that Texas will turn democrat in a couple of elections.