Precinct Conventions: Similarities Between State And Local Political Parties

The Golden Age of nominating conventions were started as a mechanism to organize and unify the party. After the civil war, all the convention become deliberative convention. People get the nominations by cutting deals and bring the different factions and people into a collation.

Texas politics and its history has been described as having two major periods (Young, 2010). During the first period (1836-1952) the Democratic Party

Any qualified Texas voter can be participates in the formulation of state and national platform, and in picking the

Texas was loyal to Democratic Party for a long period of time due to a number of reasons. First, it has to be recognized that Democratic Party played pivotal role in political development of Texas dating back to the time when the white Americans first settled there. This made Texan Democrats evolve from a loose political association into an organized party. Another reason why Texas remained a stronghold of the Democratic Party was the unavailability of a second party to rival them throughout much of the state's history (Alwyn, 1971). Democratic Party was the only viable party in Texas from 1836 up to 1952. This made them dominate politics at all levels. Politics in Texas revolved around personalities rather than political parties (Alwyn, 1971).

In the Unites States today, we have two political parties that facilitate our government. These parties are known as the Democratic party and the Republican party. In the United States over the years have grown to make the two-party system a strong one; it separates political views, makes it easier to vote, and they are more stable than having a multi-party system. This leads to the states to have dominating party. Texas has been a Republican party, this does not mean that there is not competition versus political parties. Texas politics have been dominated by a one party because they are able to from the government while the other party has little to no say.

Over time, Texas has experienced periods of dominance by both the Republican and Democratic parties. Currently, the Republican Party is the more dominant party in Texas, as it is the party that holds the greatest amount of political power. A steadily increasing Texas population, as well as a changing social climate and changing demographics, are all factors that may influence which party will experience the greatest power in the future. In order to determine the role that population, demographics, and social climate will have on party dominance, we must explore both parties, as well as the changes that are occurring in Texas. This paper will discuss the major priorities of the Republican and Democratic Parties and the changes that are

As individuals, we turn towards political parties to identify with a group that has the most in common with our own values and principals. Each political party’s agenda focuses on the primary interests affiliated with that party and is motivated to enact its beliefs and interests through legislation by electing officials into government. Texas is a large state with four political parties: Republican, Democratic, Green Party, and Libertarian. Each political party has a basic fundamental ideology and platform on current issues. The two major political parties in Texas and in the nation are the Republican and Democratic parties.Texas is a conservative state where the Republican Party has known success as the leading political party in

The final thing to look at in terms of party competition in Texas is straight-ticket voting. Between 1978 and 1996 the main two-party competition between straight-ticket voters was in the Big 6 counties, although some of the suburbs were towards a one-party direction (Thornburn 208). On the other hand, since 1998, the Republican's one-party dominance has led them to gain most of the straight-ticket voters across the state. The biggest fluctuations have happened in the state’s Big 6 counties between 1998 and 2012, going back and forth between Republican and Democrat, but El Paso and Travis county have stayed mostly Democratic while Tarrant county has stayed mostly Republican. However, in 2012, only one of the counties, Caldwell, “gave more

Texas is a majority minority state, meaning that the majority of people are those belonging to minorities. During the time of people fighting for equal rights among minorities and whites, the Democratic Party was helping the minorities obtain the rights they deserve. I think the Democratic Party was able to gain control because of them mobilizing the strength of minority voters such as African Americans, Latinos, and even the lower class Caucasians. Because of the increased mobilization of minorities, and the minorities being the majority, more people supported Democratic political views, which led to the party gaining control of the state government in Texas and dominating Texas politics. The Democratic Party had the majority of Texas for nearly 100 years through the disenfranchisement of its voters, namely African Americans, Latinos, and lower class Caucasians through poll taxes. With the continuous election of Democrats among the Southern states, the Republicans

You might be wondering why Texas made this switch after so many year. Well like everything else in this world things change as the years go by. For example, democrats were conservative on social issues and progressive economically for the reason that they benefited from farm subsidies. On the other side of the coin republicans were social liberal and economically conservative. If you put those categories on someone, where would they fit in? Would they be in favor of the Democratic Party or the Republican Party? They actually wouldn’t fit in neither one of the parties, crazy right!

Looking back, indeed the changing demographics in Texas transformed electoral politics, or the process of electing the representatives of the state. The election process began after the admission of Texas to the union in 1845. The shifts of political powers after the admission to the union is reactionary to different demographics that arose over the years. To begin with, I looked back at the nature of Texas politics. Texas was founded to be inherently a Republican state. The first Texas governor Sam Houston, was a Republican. He also represented the Texans as the United States Senator for two consecutive terms. Moving forward, Texas politics shifted from Republican to Democratic since the end of Reconstruction until the 1970s (12, Mora-Ruger). In 1928, Republican had a moment, there was just a short period of intervention due to economic situation of the state. Texans although tagged as Democrats, are conservative when it comes to economic interests of the state. That is how Republicans snatched the power for a short period. However, the great depression pushed Texans away

There are numerous varieties of election races in Texas. The state Constitution and the political society in Texas together have made a framework of our legal system that welcomes Texans to pick applicants for a great numerous public offices in all levels of the government inside the state. The Constitution needs direct election for different state offices inside the executive branch and inside the legal system of the judicial branch, likewise with respect to various county level offices. A few legislative activities oblige changing the Constitution, that also needs special established constitutional amendment elections. Numerous metropolitan and other local offices are filled

I do not believe Texas with its changing demographics and social climate will be on the brink of another switch in party dominance anytime soon as immigration, guns and education are major factors. The demographics of Texas deal with the rising growth of the minority population throughout the years. In my opinion, I think minorities make up roughly half of Texas’s overall population. According to utexas.edu, “[a]s the reality of demographic changes set in during the late 1990s, part of what defined many Republicans as moderates was an emphasis in both rhetoric and policy toward increasing the party's appeal to Latinos and other ethnic and racial minorities”. Although the Democratic Party is known for receiving votes from minorities, the Republican

Texas is an interesting state when it comes to party affiliation because of the size of the state itself. On one hand, the state of Texas has 4 of the top 20 biggest cities in the United States including Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, and Austin. With all of these large and mostly liberal cities, it is quite impressive that Texas has held onto top Republican offices since 1994. According to Will (2016) in his article, “A changing Lone Star State could change the GOP,” Texas is 84.7 percent urban, and, based on the history of urban states, they usually lean towards the Democratic Party affiliation. However, according to Sanhueza (2017) in his article “Why is Texas So Red, And How Did It Get That Way?,” with this urbanization the Republican party

This single party dominance tended to limit the range of political debate, in turn constraining the evolution of the state’s political culture. Elections have gone through a huge set of changes over the last 40 years. With the barriers of all-white primaries, the poll tax and economic harassment it made the election process in Texas less democratic. While those barriers have been overcome, primarily through federal action, one-party’s persisted throughout the state making Democratic Party primaries more important than the November general election. From the Civil War to the civil rights struggles in the 1950’s and 60’s—which was an essential time when there was a systematic exclusion of Blacks and other minorities from political participation. As the effort to end the exclusion of minorities got underway, the party system that had been long dominated by the Democrats began to unravel. The civil rights victories in the 1960’s, especially the national Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, helped set in motion a realignment of the two main political parties. (utexas) It is said that Texas has transformed into a two-party system that is very competitive. Today, the Republican Party holds all the major statewide offices and has held majority control of both chambers since 2003. However beginning in the 1950’s, conservative Democrats joined the growing ranks of Republicans in supporting Republican Party candidates for president. (Collier)