Texas is growing and becoming much more ethnically and racially diverse. Texas voters differ as to whether those are positive or negative trends, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
Demographics
Explore population trends, diversity, and data shaping Texas communities, politics, and policy.
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Texas 2020 Elections
Is Texas really going purple? Our Heat Index will show how competitive your district was — and is.
Is Texas really a swing state? To explore the question, we looked at nearly 20 years of election data to assess the competitiveness of every congressional and legislative district in the state. Take a tour of some of the state’s hot spots and then type in your address to find out the lay of the land in your districts.
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Texas at center of new evidence suggesting census citizenship question was pushed to help Republicans
An analysis of the Texas House was among the evidence submitted in federal court as part of the legal fight over the addition of a citizenship question on the census.
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Demographics
Point of Order: This is us
In the latest episode of our podcast about the 86th Legislature, Evan Smith talks to state demographer Lloyd Potter about coming changes to our population that will have profound public policy implications: explosive growth, rapid urbanization and demographic inevitability.
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Demographics
Texas demographer: Census citizenship question isn’t necessary
Responsible for providing population projections for the state, Lloyd Potter said citizenship information is not needed “for the purposes of the census.”
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Texas Legislature 2019
Watch Senate Bill 9 hearing on voting rights and access in Texas House committee
The House Elections Committee on Wednesday night resumed its discussions on a controversial bill pitched as an election security measure but that critics say is a pathway to state-sanctioned voter suppression.
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Guides
Where is Texas’ growing population coming from?
Texas is growing at a rate of 1,000 people per day, and for the second year in a row, most of the people who moved to the state came from other countries in 2018. And the biggest growth in international migration isn’t from Latin America.
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Tell us your #TexanSince story
What does being Texan mean to you? Share your Texas origin story for a community art project to be showcased at Texas Tribune Festival in September, and you could snag two free tickets.
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In long-winding case, court considers federal oversight of Texas redistricting
A panel of three judges heard arguments in the high-stakes fight that could return Texas to the days of federal supervision of its political maps.
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Keeping an eye on voting rights and wrongs: I’m Alexa Ura, and I cover voting rights for The Texas Tribune.
As a beat reporter, it’s my responsibility to scrutinize the state’s actions on voting rights with the context of history in mind.
