Hinojosa’s victory over Abbott, a three-term incumbent, triggers a political earthquake in a state that has not elected a Democrat to the governor’s mansion since 1990.
Most of those Democratic governor’s were the conservatives of the day, though. They saw the state through slavery, the Confederacy, Jim Crow and the Klan, and became Republicans after the the Civil Rights Act and Southern Strategy.
Most of those Democratic governor’s were the conservatives of the day, though. They saw the state through slavery, the Confederacy, Jim Crow and the Klan, and became Republicans after the the Civil Rights Act and Southern Strategy.