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LetMyPeopleVote

(177,271 posts)
Sun Feb 15, 2026, 12:22 PM Yesterday

'South Texas will never be red again': Home builders warn GOP over Trump's immigration raids

There are some demographic trends that show that Texas will turn blue. I was surprised to see Latino voters and the Rio Grande Valley support trump in 2024. I grew up in the Rio Grande Valley and that area used to be very blue. The recent Texas state senate race flipped Democratic because of Latino voters not being happy with trump. It seems that the shift in Latino voters could affect the Texas gerrymandered races



https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/14/south-texas-will-never-be-red-again-builders-warn-gop-over-trumps-immigration-raids-00781374

The meetings this month came after Democrats crushed a Republican in a special runoff election for a state senate seat in a Trump-friendly district in Tarrant County, which includes most of Fort Worth, rattling Republicans nationally. New research from the American Business Immigration Coalition and Comité de 100, first obtained by POLITICO, shows how slipping support among Latino voters could affect Republican-leaning districts in Texas, Pennsylvania, Florida and California.

Here is the chart that was cited



trump's ICE policies may alienate Latino voters and turn Texas blue
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'South Texas will never be red again': Home builders warn GOP over Trump's immigration raids (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Yesterday OP
As Corey Lewandowski likes to say, tanyev 22 hrs ago #1
I'll believe it when I see it pinkstarburst 21 hrs ago #2

pinkstarburst

(1,906 posts)
2. I'll believe it when I see it
Sun Feb 15, 2026, 04:03 PM
21 hrs ago

They say this every time. Texas is turning blue! You have no idea how much I want this to be true, y'all. Texas is a Hispanic majority state and that group tends to vote much more conservative than people want to believe.

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