re: #18 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Tears

Though an election where the GOP lost Texas would certainly get their attention.

We are not that far away anymore, Texas election results for 2012…

Mitt Romney/ Paul Ryan REP 4,555,857 57.20%
Barack Obama/ Joe Biden DEM 3,294,482 41.36%

While Texas demographics are changing rapidly…

However, the demographics show that the Texas population is changing. The Texas of 2010 is not the Texas of 2000—and it certainly won’t be the Texas of 2020 in how it looks and, presumably, how it votes.

Over the past decade, Texas has added more than 4.2 million residents, a 20 percent population increase. Hispanics, who now constitute about 38 percent of the Texas population, accounted for 65 percent of the state’s growth since 2000. By contrast, non-Hispanic whites grew just 4.2 percent.

Texas added nearly 1 million children under 18 in the past decade—and 95 percent of them were Hispanic. For the first time in Lone Star history, Hispanics make up the majority of the 4.9 million kids enrolled in Texas public schools, pre-kindergarten, and early childhood education.

What happens when those students reach voting age?

The answer: a Democratic electoral base that Republicans may not be able to overcome.

It is entirely possible that Texas could become a blue state by 2020, especially if the GOP continues to turn off Hispanics.