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• Ideology
Conservative
Texas liberals
• Conservative and liberals in Texas
today
48% identify as conservative
21% identify as liberal
• Partisanship
About 11% of Texans are true independents
Substantial gender, ethnic/racial and
generational differences in party identification
Republican dominance during past 20 years
• Public Policy
Conservative opinions regarding policy
Low taxes
Few financial resources committed to public
services
Conservative social values
Bettmann/Corbis
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POLITICS AND CULTURAL
DIVERSITY 3 OF 7
• Texans Struggle for Equal Rights
continued
African American Texans
• White primary
• Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
• NAACP
• Sweatt v. Painter
• United States v. Texas
at the “separate-but-
equal” doctrine in the
landmark case Sweatt v.
Painter, (1950).
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KEY U.S. SUPREME COURT DECISIONS PROTECTING
TEXANS’ RIGHTS TO EQUALITY AND PRIVACY 2 OF 3
Landmark Supreme
Unconstitutional Texas Practice U.S. Constitutional Violation Court Case
State laws mandating statewide No state shall deny any Brown v. Board of
segregation of public schools person the equal Education of
and most facilities open to the protection of the laws— Topeka (1954)
public. Texas was among the 17 Fourteenth Amendment.
mostly southern states with
statewide laws requiring
segregation at the time of the
decision.
Texas law making abortion No state shall deny liberty Roe v. Wade (1973)
illegal; 30 states outlawed without due process of
abortions for any reason in 1973. law—Fourteenth
Amendment
Landmark Supreme
Unconstitutional Texas Practice U.S. Constitutional Violation Court Case
Texas law making homosexual No state shall deny liberty Lawrence v. Texas
conduct a crime; 14 mostly without due process of (2003)
southern states made law—Fourteenth
homosexual conduct a crime at Amendment.
the time of the decision.
State laws making same-sex No state shall deny liberty Obergefell v.
marriage illegal; Texas was without the due process of Hodges (2015)
among 31 states with law; no state shall deny
constitutional provisions that any person the equal
banned same-sex marriage. protection of the laws—
Most states had statutes Fourteenth Amendment.
defining marriage as between
one man and one woman.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau and Office of the Texas State Demographer
Source: The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and the Hobby Center for the Study of Texas at Rice University