Hispanic Voting in Texas and the Southwest

[BigSkyBob]

Her advertising stated that her family was from Alabama, and she wore yellow and used yellow in her campaign (Yellow Rose of Texas).  

Did they include her picture?

No offense, but I never know if you truly believe that the facts you trot out have implications or recognize that they are trivia. I really don't think that putting yellow on her posters when she is running in Texas, for whatever people actually saw her advertising and remembered it, is going to overrule the fact that she had a Spanish last name and that's the last thing people saw when they were in the ballot booth and had to make a decision on a race that the large majority of them knew nothing about.

Well, there was the two Illinois Democratic primaries were the LaRouche candidates with English surnames beat the machine candidates with Slavic sounding names.

[BigSkyBob]

the reaspn why VRA districts are important in Texas is because of polarized voting habits. According to DRA, the precincts where whites make up a majority gave McCain 68 percent of the vote. The precincts where whites don't gave Obama 63 percent.

And, if Hispanics in places like Collins County started voting like their White Neighbors, and Whites in poorer areas started voting more like their Hispanic peers, the result would less "racial polarization" in voting, but, a larger McCain majorities in "White" precincts, and a higher Obama majorities in non-White majorites.