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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1572563)	11/19/2025 5:21:33 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1576022

In Texas, redistricting was always a way elected officials got to pick their voters instead of furthering national party goals. Now Texas has always been a single party state, so there just wasn't much thought given to cutting the other party out of power, they just weren't a factor. Even as the Republicans started to make inroads into state politics during the 1980s, the focus was still mainly on making elected officials safe in the future. That changed when "Hot tub Tom" DeLay was pushing his permanent Republican majority ideas, resulting in Texas doing that midterm redistricting that boosted Republicans in the House. Disenfranchising minorities was not really an overt thing, either until relatively recently. Texas politicians relied on the fact that hispanics and blacks wouldn't vote for each other's candidates, but both would vote for a white one. Given that for decades there were roughly equal numbers for the 3 main groups, with whites having a small edge on the other two but less than 50 percent of the total, that single fact was enough to give whites a large majority in the Ledge. Voter suppression is a major factor in Texas, we have one of the lowest, if not the lowest, voter participation rates in the country. Things are different, now. Texas, like many red states, has been scientifically gerrymandered for decades. Voting patterns are tracked down to the level of neighborhoods, and they have been stacked and cracked to maximize the votes and stay somewhat within the few remaining laws and regulations.