The Texas Triangle

It’s not as dangerous as the Golden Triangle in Southeast Asia, but it could be nearly as dangerous for Republicans in future Texas elections. I believe that it’s where the efforts to identify and turn out Democrats should be concentrated.

The Texas Triangle includes 67 of Texas’ 254 counties. It includes counties that connect The Dallas—Fort Worth Metroplex, San Antonio, and Houston. It’s basically outlined by the interstate highways that connect the Metroplex with Houston (IH 45), Houston with San Antonio (IH 10), and San Antonio with the Metroplex (IH 35). Although it includes only 25.4 percent of Texas’ counties, it contains 74.4 percent of Texas’ projected population in 2019. That’s 21.6 million people.

To get an idea of the demographics of these 67 counties, an alphabetical list with the ethnic composition of the population of each county as estimated in 2019 follows:

Where does the work need to be done to flip Texas, turning it Blue? Here are the results of the 2020 presidential election in those 67 counties:

This is the beginning of a series of posts on organizing to create a Blue Texas. It's a antidote to Wayne Thorburn's Red State: An Insider's Story of How the GOP Came to Dominate Texas Politics.