How Texas Republicans Paved the Way for Their Own Demise
Posted on AllSides October 14th, 2020
From The Left
ANALYSIS
THE REPUBLICAN TAKEOVER of Texas was gradual. First came the shocking upset of populist Democratic Gov. Ann Richards in 1994, who was upset by the party boy-turned-evangelical George W. Bush. Two years later, the GOP flipped the state Senate. It wasn’t until the midterms of 2002, with Bush in the White House and riding a post-9/11 wave of popularity, that Texas Republicans achieved their trifecta.
The new majority went to work quickly on two primary objectives: to make Texas the most hospitable state in the country for business and...
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