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Texas GOP bets on hard right turn amid changing demographics

by Will WeissertPaul J. Weber
| September 8, 2021 12:03 AM

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republicans in America's largest conservative state for years racked up victories under the slogan “Keep Texas Red,” a pledge to quash a coming blue wave that Democrats argued was inevitable given shifting demographics.

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