Since 2004, non-Hispanic white residents have been outnumbered in Texas. And to the apparent surprise of many, that hasn’t worked out all that well for the Democratic Party.
The record influx of recent arrivals from all over might be exactly what the state needs. That includes Californians. (And no, they’re not turning Texas blue.)
The booming suburbs of Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio could change the distribution of power in the state.
The map, reimagined
The influential data journalism site 538.com takes issue with the reports that Austin’s black population is shrinking. Are they missing some context?
Followers of Texas politics and business will certainly know the name Charles Miller, who is a chairman emeritus of the Greater Houston Partnership and a former chair of the UT System Board of Regents, among many other things. He wrote a response to a post from Monday about
In 1997 when demographer Steve H. Murdock published his first book, The Texas Challenge, he was a Cassandra of sorts. He predicted the rise of the Hispanic majority, and he spoke early and often about the implications such a demographic shift would have on Texas’s economy. His devotion to the
The changes Texas is facing can become a terrible burden--or an unprecedented asset.
Former state demographer Steve H. Murdock is back, with a book that should be required reading for all 26,060,796 of us.
Former state demographer Steve H. Murdock troves his data to illustrate the average Texan in two every different years—1950 and 2050.
What the Hispanic vote tells us.
