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This list seeks to help research demographic change in Texas and how it has affected politics over the last 40 years. The demographic changes set the tone for the borderland and its region's political agenda that will be explained over the past 40 years, in addition to hinting at possible future conflicts between Texas, the US, and Mexico, which shape this region's identity.
Texas Population Projections 2010 to 2050. Note: "NH White" population increasing from 10.9 million to 13.5 million, while "Hispanic" population increasing from 6.6 million to 20 million.
Note: Starr County's population is 97.7% Hispanic.
The majority of the Hispanic population living in the U.S. are situated within the original territory belonging to the Texas Annexation of 1845 and the Mexican Session of 1848.
Along the U.S.-Mexican border, where hearts and minds and money and culture merge, the Century of the Americas is born
Current border and immigration politics, El Paso and San Diego residents say, obscures U.S. border cities' unique "fronterizo" border culture and rich Hispanic heritage and history.
Nearly half of Hispanic Texans live in the state’s five largest counties, a voting bloc Democrats cannot afford to lose as they struggle to compete in the state’s vast rural areas.
Frustrated by the perception of the border as a lawless land, two native sons embarked on a 1,200-mile journey to capture, through a series of images and letters, the region’s untold stories.
