Republicans are unlikely to protect freshman Rep. Blake Farenthold, who won in a heavily Latino district. Many in the party establishment see his election as a flukethe district he won has been held by a Democrat since its creation in 1982. Helping Farenthold would mean making his district less Latino, which would create major headaches for Republicans elsewhere because the party leaders would have to create another majority-Latino seat to comply with the Voting Rights Act.
“However, it is not some “GOP Kingmakers” intentionally disenfranchising ‘Tea Party’ candidates”
I beg to differ:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2709222/posts
All they need to do is give Corpus Christi a northern rather than southern focus, and they accomplish both goals (helping Farenthold and preserving a majority hispanic district).
It appears GRIT 2 comes closest to doing that: