Presidential Election Results by CD in Texas, 1984

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I'm surprised that Mondale did that well in CD 18. 72% is a big victory considering Reagan got 61% in Harris County. I'm guessing Reagan would have gotten 75-80 percent in Bill Archer's district.

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What percent of the population in District 18 was black?

Also, what was Reagan's percent in District 3 and District 7? I'm guessing it had to have been close to 80 percent.

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Lance Armstrong grew up in the 3rd District as a kid. He said where he grew up was
"soul-deadening" and conformist to a fault. The place he lives had "strip malls, perfect
grid streets and faux-antebellum country clubs in between empty brown wasted fields". "It was populated by guys in golf shirts and Sansabelt pants and women in bright fake gold jewelry, and alienated teenagers." He said that if you weren't upper middle class or a football player, you didn't exist. Kids in the "social" group made fun of his Lycra shorts. His adolescent resentments became fuel for his competitive fire. He said "Back then I was just a kid with about four chips on his shoulder, thinking, 'Maybe if I ride my bike on this road long enough
it will take me out of here.' " Armstrong's most pointed criticism is towards his high school which he called "one of the largest and most football-crazed high schools in
the state." In the second semester of his senior year, he was invited by the U.S.
Cycling Federation to train for the next season's Junior World Championships, his first big international bike race.School administrators objected to him missing six weeks of school, and told him and his mother he would not graduate if he skipped school to train. Armstrong said "I knew damned well that if I played football and wore Polo shirts and had parents who belonged to the Los Rios Country Club, things would be different."