Reddit mentions of Red, Blue, and Purple America: The Future of Election Demographics

The reason it's always Texas has more to do with your size than your politics. Well, it's partly your politics. However, the liberals do the same thing with California. California and Texas are the largest buyers of text books in the country. No text book company wants to produce a Texas version, California version and Rest of America version.

So California and Texas set their requirements very stringently in order to buy text books because they know what they put in their textbooks will be the guide for the rest of the nation. They also allocate much more funding to make sure they're loyal customers in return for getting their ideology in text books.

The thing is, California is joke when it comes to managing money. Their liberal state government just wastes and wastes money. Texas is more organized and sees much more success because they're dedicated.

That's really the lynch pin of GOP success. They're much more organized because they have only one ideology. They cater to wealthy whites. To a certain extent it's wealthy white males.

The liberals get all the overflow. A white gay couple will have a much different agenda than a black heterosexual woman. Although, some gays are starting to vote for the GOP. This is both due to the fact that parts of the Republican party (mostly young) are accepting of marriage equality and partly because there are many gay couples now in their thirties and forties without children who have an interest in maintaining the status quo.

If you're homosexual and already got the right to marry why wouldn't you start voting for the GOP? You're less likely to have children. You both likely work. Why would you want higher taxes? Why would you want to care about abortion? Granted, it's far from a pronounced trend. However, the GOP is winning over hispanics and homosexuals a lot faster than they're winning over blacks or women. The Hispanic thing is mostly because many of them come from strong Christian backgrounds. So they agree with the GOP when they say Christianity should be part of American life.

This stuff is really interesting. At least to me, but not so much at cocktail parties.

Further reading:

America's New Swing Region: Changing Politics and Demographics in the Mountain West


http://www.amazon.com/Americas-New-Swing-Region-Demographics/dp/0815722869

Red, Blue, and Purple America: The Future of Election Demographics

http://www.amazon.com/Red-Blue-Purple-America-Demographics/dp/0815783159/ref=pd_sim_b_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=115CNAB7JTFY76W1ZE9Y