The Texas Tribune
Setting the stage for what is expected to be a bruising battle over political representation, the results of the 2020 census released Thursday showed that Texas’ explosive growth over the past decade was again powered by people of color.
And it is the state’s cities and suburbs that are booming, with Texas home to three of the country’s 10 largest cities and four of the fastest-growing.
Texas gained the most residents of any state since 2010, and its Hispanic population is now nearly as large as the non-Hispanic white population, with just half a percentage point separating them. Texas gained nearly 11 Hispanic residents for every additional white resident since 2010.
Setting the stage for what is expected to be a bruising battle over political representation, the results of the 2020 census released Thursday showed that Texas’ explosive growth over the past decade was again powered by people of color.
And it is the state’s cities and suburbs that are booming, with Texas home to three of the country’s 10 largest cities and four of the fastest-growing.
Texas gained the most residents of any state since 2010, and its Hispanic population is now nearly as large as the non-Hispanic white population, with just half a percentage point separating them. Texas gained nearly 11 Hispanic residents for every additional white resident since 2010.
Texans of color accounted for 95 percent of the state’s population growth. The 2020 census puts the state’s population at 29,145,505 – a 16 percent jump from 25.1 million in 2010. Hispanic Texans were responsible for half of that increase.
Non-Hispanic white Texans now make up just 39.8 percent of the state’s population — down from 45 percent in 2010. Meanwhile, the share of Hispanic Texans has grown to 39.3 percent.
The Hispanic population’s approach to becoming Texas’ largest demographic group marks a significant milestone ahead of this year’s redistricting, during which state lawmakers will draw new political maps divvying up seats in Congress and the state House and Senate in what will no doubt be an intense and protracted fight over political control of the state for the next decade.
Texas Republicans hold every lever of power to try to lock in or even expand their majorities at the state Capitol and in Congress. But they will be working to redraw the state’s political maps while confronting the demographic reality that the state is growing in ways that put the party’s stranglehold in question.
Hispanic leaders will surely point to the growth to lobby for increased political control and representation, particularly as lawmakers consider how to draw the two additional congressional seats – the most gained by any state – Texas earned because of its fast growth.
The sluggish growth among white Texans could also complicate Republican efforts to cement their power, which relies on a political base much more likely to be white and rural.
The state’s Hispanic, Black and Asian populations all significantly outgrew the white population since 2010. The white population growth – an increase of just 187,252 – was swamped by the total growth among Asian Texans, who make up a tiny share of the total population but have seen their numbers grow at the fastest pace in the state. The state’s Asian population grew by 613,092 since 2010.
The Hispanic population saw the biggest growth, with nearly 2 million additional Hispanic people now calling Texas home.
Over the last two decades, the GOP has maintained its power by drawing political maps at the expense of voters of color. During the last round of redistricting, federal courts found that Texas lawmakers discriminated against Hispanic and Black voters in particular. The Legislature’s Republican majority was reprimanded by federal judges for intentionally diluting the power of their votes; their maps after the 2010 census flunked both the U.S. Constitution and the federal Voting Rights Act.
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Non-Hispanic white Texans now make up just 39.8 percent of the state’s population — down from 45 percent in 2010. Meanwhile, the share of Hispanic Texans has grown to 39.3 percent.
The Hispanic population’s approach to becoming Texas’ largest demographic group marks a significant milestone ahead of this year’s redistricting, during which state lawmakers will draw new political maps divvying up seats in Congress and the state House and Senate in what will no doubt be an intense and protracted fight over political control of the state for the next decade.
Texas Republicans hold every lever of power to try to lock in or even expand their majorities at the state Capitol and in Congress. But they will be working to redraw the state’s political maps while confronting the demographic reality that the state is growing in ways that put the party’s stranglehold in question.
Hispanic leaders will surely point to the growth to lobby for increased political control and representation, particularly as lawmakers consider how to draw the two additional congressional seats – the most gained by any state – Texas earned because of its fast growth.
The sluggish growth among white Texans could also complicate Republican efforts to cement their power, which relies on a political base much more likely to be white and rural.
The state’s Hispanic, Black and Asian populations all significantly outgrew the white population since 2010. The white population growth – an increase of just 187,252 – was swamped by the total growth among Asian Texans, who make up a tiny share of the total population but have seen their numbers grow at the fastest pace in the state. The state’s Asian population grew by 613,092 since 2010.
The Hispanic population saw the biggest growth, with nearly 2 million additional Hispanic people now calling Texas home.
Over the last two decades, the GOP has maintained its power by drawing political maps at the expense of voters of color. During the last round of redistricting, federal courts found that Texas lawmakers discriminated against Hispanic and Black voters in particular. The Legislature’s Republican majority was reprimanded by federal judges for intentionally diluting the power of their votes; their maps after the 2010 census flunked both the U.S. Constitution and the federal Voting Rights Act.
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14 comments:
reason demorats want the border open "VOTES"
Another Libtard lie...any moron can obtain a photo ID which even the landfill people ask for when you dump garbage...the same place this article should go.
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Reason Republicans want voter suppression- "VOTES".
tu gente es como conejos
Bullshit title! I’m Hispanic and I vote Republican!
The writer makes the false assumption that Hispanics will vote Democrat.
DEMOCRATS POLITICANS ALWAYS TRIES TO SCARE ALL THE HISPANICS THAT THE WHITES WANT TO SURPRESS YOUR VOTE....THAT'S BULLSHIT!!!! I'M HISANIC AND A DEMOCRAT AND NEVER BEEN PREVENTED FROM VOTING EN MY ENTIRE LIFE!!!! THIS MEANS IN EVERY ELECTIONS HELD IN CAMERON FROM THE LOCAL TO THE FEDERAL...DON'T LISTEN THESE DEMOCRATS WHO ALWAYS TO TRY TO TELL YOU SOMETHING ENTIRELY DIFFERENT OF VOTING RIGHTS!!!! YOU CAN VOTE TRUST ME DON'T BELIEVE THIS WHITE TRASH THAT OUR HISPNIC POLITICANS TRY PUSH ON OTHERS...THEY JUST WANT CONTROL THATS SOCIALISM!!!!
I'm afraid to go vote if they ask for an ID because I'm a minority. Why aren't white people afraid to show an ID?
It does NOT matter that we are getting closer to a majority. Unless you are Cuban, Venezuelan, upper class, the poor DO NOT VOTE and when we do, it is not enough. We can outnumber the white people 5 to 1 and we will still be under their majority/minority, because among our Hispanic base, we all want OUR piece of the cake and not willing to give to Mexicanos, central Americans, Asians or Blacks. We are culturized in the white beliefs of the me first generation that we go against our own heritage and look down on those that think different.
Bible story of Bethesda... Los dejo con esto..
A group of sick and crippled people wait outside a pool by Jerusalem's sheep market. In Hebrew the pool is called Bethesda. They believe that every now and then an angel goes down into the pool, and that the first to enter the pool following the angel will be cured.
One of the crippled has been waiting for that miracle 38 years. Then Jesus passes, on the sabbath, and asks him whether he wants to be healed. The man complains that there is no one to help him into the pool, which explains that he is always too late. Jesus then says "Rise, take your bed and walk". The man is cured on the spot.
It's not a false assumption. You have to vote Democrat if you Hispanic.. You have not choice. Biden said so himself. Besides if you're Hispanic and you vote Republican then you're a racist and a coconut. That how they keep you voting Democrat. And it works on the ignorant. Giving them more free shit also helps.
Los Piojos no votan
NOT TO WORRY, cocos vote racists republican and have NO meaning at all, any where. So continue kissing white asses MAMONES...
Folks not to worry, hispanics also vote REPUBLICAN because they are sick and tired of the POOR DEMOCRAT candidates in the past, its always the same little group or crowd, demos dont allow new blood to come into their party because SON MAMONES, G HINoJOSA, T YZAGUIRRE, J MAGALLENES, D BETANCOURT E TREVINO JOE RIVERA AND SO ON YOU ALL HAVE THE LIST OF THESE democRATS. lol
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