Texas (DEMO)graphics

According to my classmate Elijah Lopez's blog Minority report, he recently made a comment in one of his entries: A Progressive Shift about how the sociodemographics in the state of Texas is going to be consumed by one of the fastest growing populations in Texas- Hispanics- by 2020. And as a person of Hispanic descent I can say that, yes, we are the majority minority that will perhaps cover more than 1/2 of the population of our state; however, Mr. Lopez states that perhaps as more Latinx people join the Lone-Star State that one of the largest political shifts will happen. Texas can become blue. Even if this were to be true, I would like to take the time to remember what actually happens politics and the hardship the community will most likely face. As a community with a large population that only gets larger, most people who are of Hispanic descent probably come from backgrounds where education was not important, and with this comes the idea that voting is perhaps not the most important, nor does their vote matter. Wich can actually lead to a low-voter turn out in the community. And most notably, gerrymandering, the practice of dividing the state into sections target key groups to hold power in a continuous effort for a political party to be in charge.