Presidential Election Results by CD in Texas, 1984

[Fuzzybigfoot]

A pretty cool find!  


Info from the Almanac of American Politics, 1988 (which I found at the library).


Mondale, as you can see, only won 3 C.D.'s against Reagan, a total blowout for what used to be a Democratic leaning swing state.



His wins include:


15th CD:  54%-46%  (The largest of his wins it terms of land area, which you can probably figure out.  Covers much of Southern Texas, big Latino populations)

18th CD:  72%-28%  (Downtown Houston. African American vote very large)

20th CD:  59%-41%  (Downtown San Antonio, large Latino populations)






Please comment!  

[Fuzzybigfoot]

Any requests?

[RI]

Could you make a shaded map?

[Fuzzybigfoot]

Could you make a shaded map?

Sure!  I'll try to get you one soon.

[Fuzzybigfoot]

Here it is:

[Fuzzybigfoot]

Mondale also came somewhat close to winning the district representing the minority precincts in Dallas (53% Reagan, 47% Mondale).   A 10% GOP shift from 1980, it was won by Carter 52% to 48%.

[freepcrusher]

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.

[Liberalrocks]

You know its a blow out when he lost El Paso County. That is also heavily latino and both Gore and Kerry carried against native son George W Bush.

Very interesting information. I always enjoy discussing landslide scenarios no matter who the victor is.

[GeorgiaSenator]

How about Heimlich County?

[Fuzzybigfoot]

How about Heimlich County?

I googled that county, and it told me it was a fictional county from "King of the Hill". 

[Fuzzybigfoot]

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.

I find that pretty interesting too.  It had a huge African American population.

[CatoMinor]

Those CD lines look sooo much nicer than our current ones

[Fuzzybigfoot]

Those CD lines look sooo much nicer than our current ones

Agreed, gerrymandering sucks. 

[freepcrusher]

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.

[Fuzzybigfoot]

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.

Correct, the 3rd gave Reagan 82% of the vote, and the 7th gave Reagan 83%.  

African Americans made up a plurality of the 18th, at 39%.  


And by the way, welcome to the forum. 

[freepcrusher]

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."

[minionofmidas]

Yes, I am perfectly ready to believe that Lance Armstrong's soul is dead.

[Fuzzybigfoot]

LOL it's funny this thread is getting just as much or more attention than the 1992 P.E. by C.D. thread I put up, which has the Texas results for that year plus interesting states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Indiana....



Not trying to be an attention whore, I really wonder why. 

It's still all cool if you like this thread...