Latino Groups Sue Texas Democratic Party

The State is largely Republican. The border areas are mainly Hispanic, and largely Democratic. They historically feel, rightly or wrongly, ignored by their own government, which, additionally, and especially since the state flipped so convincingly Republican, has only been underscored. The prevailing view is "what's the point?" I know this because I'm from El Paso - and frankly my first political affiliation - although I'm an American - was with a Mexican party, and while I definitely identify as "Texan" I still know, in my heart, I'm really more of a New Mexican. From El Paso it is as far to Austin as it is to LA - several states away. If you watch weather on any news station anywhere else, most of the time you'd think Far West Texas didn't even exist. The border is in little better shape - maybe worse shape - and has an even higher percentage of "new" Americans, who aren't in the habit of voting, and in any case, and especially at the State level, hardly ever see anyone who looks like them. Once again I'm "lucky" enough to have some experience with the way people feel there, too - Laredo, and further up the border - and once again the prevailing thought is "what's the point". Which breeds a cycle - they don't vote because nothing ever gets done for them; and politicians don't do anything for them because, well, they just don't vote. And that would be fine, maybe, if unfortunate, if that's where it was left. But no - they took it a step beyond and made it so that it was no longer one man=one vote. They made it so that a white kid in West Austin has, in essence, more than one vote, but a brown kid in East El Paso has less than one vote. And this from a party that calls itself the "Democrats"? It is precisely this party which should be fighting against such historical disenfranchisement - and, indeed, in the past, some attempts were made. Which is why people in the region tended to vote for Clinton in the first place, among other things. They remembered.

I'm not too sure, but as parties directly feed into national elections, they do sort of strike me as quasi-governmental, like NASA, or the Post Office. I know that's not really how it works, though.