And in the 1960s, democrats controlled Texas. LBJ, anyone?
Control of states ebbs and flows.
I just think that losers who land on these threads, set their hair on fire and scream like little girls that we’re “dooooomed” are full of crap.
The modern Republican party is now pretty much the 1960s Democrat party, and the Democrat party is now the Socialist party. Texas voters didn't change, the parties did. The Democrats decided to focus on the cities because they discovered the votes are much cheaper to buy there.
Reagan's California is now a permanent one party state due to a mass flood of imported voters. What's surprising is the Democrats greedily continue to import even more voters. Doesn't that just speed up the bankruptcy filing and the end of their rule? A two-thirds permanent super-majority isn't enough? Now they are working to replicate the California method in other states.
But at least back then the "ebbs and flows" were due to U.S. citizens, not foreign nationals as is the case for the last couple of decades.