Player protests and other issues have put the NFL in strange territory in Texas: It’s both unpopular and politically polarizing.
Demographics
Explore population trends, diversity, and data shaping Texas communities, politics, and policy.
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Texas cities want millennials living downtown. So why does the state keep building highways to the suburbs?
As young, educated professionals push away old ideas about how to move around Texas cities, transportation planners’ vision for the future is still largely influenced by the past.
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Families Divided
Immigrant parents searching for children after being released from federal custody
A group of undocumented immigrant parents released from federal custody on Monday told reporters that despite the government’s glossy spin on how families will be reunited, they aren’t too optimistic they’ll see their children anytime soon.
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Texas Voting Rights
U.S. Supreme Court rules Texas lawmakers did not intentionally discriminate in drawing political maps
The court also upheld 10 of 11 districts that had been flagged as problematic.
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Families Divided
Kids in exchange for deportation: Detained migrants say they were told they could get kids back on way out of U.S.
In a detention center near Houston, an asylum seeker from Honduras said he agreed to sign a voluntary removal order from the U.S. after federal officials promised to reunite him with his 6-year-old daughter.
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Families Divided
Japanese-Americans imprisoned at Texas internment camp in 1940s watch border crisis unfold with heavy hearts
For Japanese-Americans who were held at a South Texas internment camp, the trauma inflicted on migrant children who have been separated from their parents is all too familiar.
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Hispanic Texans on pace to become largest population group in state by 2022
Texas’ Hispanic population increased from 9.7 million in 2010 to 11.1 million last year, according to new census population estimates. Meanwhile, the state’s white population has increased by about 458,000 people.
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Texas education board votes to call long-sought Texas course “Ethnic Studies: Mexican American Studies”
During a hearing on Tuesday, dozens of Mexican-American educators and activists implored the board to change the name of the course from “Ethnic Studies: An Overview of Americans of Mexican Descent” to “Mexican-American Studies.”
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“Names are important”: Texas activists protest the renaming of “Mexican-American Studies” course to “Ethnic Studies”
Republican State Board of Education member David Bradley proposed the new course title in April, saying he found “hyphenated Americanism to be divisive.” On Tuesday, another board member, Democrat Ruben Cortez, called Bradley “the most mean-spirited” person on the board.
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Scores of Texas women are running for office. Many of them are new to politics.
With lots of female candidates in Texas trying to win spots in the state’s male-dominated congressional and legislative delegations, a series of workshops on Sunday helped Democratic women navigate the challenges of running their first political campaigns.
