Agenda

• Today

    - Texas's Diverse Political Culture
    - 3 extra credit questions

• Wednesday

    - Review for Exam 3 (Final Exam)
    - Final Exam Extra Credit Questions

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• Final Exam November 25 and 26

    - No makeups

• All work must be submitted by November 26

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Texas’s Diverse Population

• Texas is a large and diverse state
• Majority-minority state
• Language diversity
• Economic diversity¹
• Religious diversity²

Texas’s Diverse Population

• Texas is a large and diverse state

    - 2nd largest state in the US
    - 2nd most populous state in the US
    - 2nd most diverse state in the US

Texas’s Diverse Population

• Texas is a majority-minority state¹

    - American Indian and Alaska Native: 278,948
    - Asian: 1,585,480
    - Black or African-American: 3,552,997
    - Hispanic or Latino: 11,441,717
    - Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander: 33,611
    - White (not Hispanic or Latino): 11,584,597
    - Some other race: 3,951,366
    - Two or more races: 5,133,738

Texas’s Diverse Population

Texas population by Age

Texas’s Diverse Population

• Language Other Than English Spoken at Home in Texas: 35.4% ± 0.2%

    - Spanish 28.2%
    - Other Indo-European 2.7%
    - Asian and Pacific Island languages 3.3%
    - Other languages 1.2%

• Language Other Than English Spoken at Home in United States: 22.5% ± 0.1%

Texas’s Diverse Population

Income in Texas

Texas’s Diverse Population

Employment in Texas

Texas’s Diverse Population

Industry Employment in Texas

Texas’s Diverse Population: Religion (1)

• Christian: 77%^[https://www.pewresearch.org/religious-landscape-study/database/state/texas/

    - Evangelical Protestant: 31%
    - Mainline Protestant: 13%
    - Historically Black Protestant: 6%
    - Catholic: 23%
    - Mormon: 1%
    - Orthodox Christian: 1%
    - Jehovah's Witness: 1%
    - Other Christian: 1%

• Non-Christian Faiths: 4%

    - Jewish: 1%
    - Muslim: 1%
    - Buddhist: 1%
    - Hindu: 1%
    - Other World Religions: 1%
    - Other Faiths: 1%

Texas’s Diverse Population: Religion (2)

• Unaffiliated: 18%

    - Atheist: 2%
    - Agnostic: 3%
    - Nothing in Particular: 13%

• Don’t Know: 1%

Representation in Texas

As the share of white Texans continues to shrink, the Legislature remains mostly white and male

Representation in Texas

• 2023 State Legislature

    - 70% male
    - 54% white
    - white male: nearly half

Representation in Texas

Gender History in Texas Legislature: from Texas Tribune

Representation in Texas

First Black Statewide Official

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Representation in Texas

• Barbara Jordan
• First African- American woman elected to Texas Senate (1966)
• Member of Congress (1973-1979)
• First African American elected to Congress from Texas
• First African American woman from the South elected to Congress

Representation in Texas

First Hispanic or Latino Statewide Official

• Dan Morales
• Attorney General (1991-1999)
• Democrat
• Succeeded by: John Cornyn

Representation in Texas

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Representation in Texas

First Republican Hispanic or Latino Statewide Official

• Alberto Gonzales
• Texas Supreme Court Justice (1999-2001)
• Resigned to become White House Counsel (2001-2005) for George W. Bush
• US Attorney General (2005-2007)

Representation in Texas

First Female Governor: Miriam Amanda “Ma” Ferguson

• Second female Governor in the United States

• Husband James Edward Ferguson, Governor 1915-1917

    - impeached and removed from office

• Ma Ferguson Governor 1925-1927 and 1933-1935

    - "Two for the price of one"

• Democrat

Representation in Texas

Second Female Governor

• Ann Richards
• Governor 1991-1995
• Democrat
• Succeeded by George W. Bush

Representation in Texas

First Female United States Senator

• Kay Bailey Hutchison
• Republican
• 1993-2013
• Succeeded by Ted Cruz

Authorship and License

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• Author: Tom Hanna

• Website: tomhanna.me

• License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.