Terror Grips the GOP As Obama Foresees Texas as a Battleground State

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25. The elites in the state were largely Democratic until the 1960s/1970s realignment.

The New Deal Coalition pretty much began splintering apart after the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the the movement for more social freedoms as well as the anti-war movement against Viet Nam. All of these essentially meant the base of voters that gave rise to the New Deal Democrats had split apart along socially liberal and socially conservative lines and along racial lines, and the lines exist to this day.

Since the split, the divide has seemingly become entrenched. Propaganda after the Fairness Doctrine was removed only helped cement those in the working class who vote for Republicans into place with the idea that minorities are out to take away their country and their jobs. In reality, they have more in common with poor blacks and poor hispanics than they do with the wealthy 1%, but good propaganda has shown time and time again that people can be made to do the bidding of the elites.