Originally Posted: October 20, 2016
A Fox News electoral vote map now lists Texas as ‘leans Republicans,’ not the ‘solid Republican’ that the state has been for decades.
18 states remain ‘solid Republican,’ including much of the Mountain West, the deep south and Indiana and West Virginia.
But the shift of what has been the most Republican state in the union out of the ‘solid Republican’ list is an indication of several trends, most notably the rising Hispanic population in Texas and the inability of Donald Trump to connect with that population.
Cal Jillson, a political analyst at SMU, says this doesn’t mean that Texas is ‘turning Blue,’ meaning leaning Democrat, but he does say it does show cracks in the solid Republican facade.