We will discuss political organizations in Texas soon enough and try to outlining the process by which Texas shifted from a solid Democratic state to a relatively solid Republican one.
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We'll go over some of this material soon.
This Wikipedia entry on the Solid South might be helpful also. While Texas isn't exactly a southern state, it tends to vote in sync with the other states in the south east. This helps explain the politics associated with that tendency.
