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MANDATORY WRITING ASSIGNMENT:
WHY TEXAS DIDN’T TURN BLUE
Professor John Ben Sutter
GOVT 2306, FALL 2020
 
 
 
Both Democrats and Republicans were told for the past few years by many political operatives on both side that Texas would become a Democratic state in this election.  (The terms politicos and journalists use often rather than “Democratic state” and “Republican state” are “blue state” and “red state” because on network maps during presidential elections states that are won by Democrats are colored blue and those won by Republicans are colored red.)
 
The predictions were that com the 2020 presidential election ,Texas would flip from a 40-year Republican dominance to new Democratic dominance.  However, Texas voted for Trump.  And it did so overwhelmingly.  Texas was colored red on election maps on all the networks indicating that it went Republican
 
So, what is the status of Texas voting patterns?
Where did Biden do well in Texas?
Where did Trump do well in Texas?
What contributed to this situation?
What happened in the 2020 presidential election in Texas?
 
Read the following articles and answer the above questions.  You must document your direct quotations and paraphrased material from the sources used in your paper.  You must not plagiarize (plagiarism will lead to severe grade deductions on your paper).  You should use the APA parenthetical format to cite to the sources used in any sentence.  There is no need for a works cited page or bibliography. You should turn the paper in on time.  It is a requirement and part of your grade to turn it in on time.  I will not accept late papers (except in an emergency, with some type of verification).  The paper is due BEFORE 11:59 pm on December 4, 2020.  You must submit the paper in the submission site on Canvas for the writing assignment.  Write it on Microsoft Word and copy it to the Canvas site.
 
BE SURE TO READ AND FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS FOR HOW TO WRITE THIS PAPER IN THE DOCUMENT IN THE “WRITING ASSIGNMENT” MODULE, “Mechanical Instructions for Writing the Writing Assignment” (which includes directions to use the number in parenthesis for an article to cite to the source on this list at the end of any sentence where you have a direct quote or paraphrase material from that source;  note that the number in parenthesis is a label for that article so that you have an efficient identifier to place in your paper for each of the sources whenever you use them throughout the paper.  The numbers to NOT mean that you are to use the following sources in numerical order in your paper)
 
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READ CAREFULLY AND USE ALL 17 OF THE FOLLOWING SOURCES IN YOUR PAPER (You may do research and find additional sources to use in your paper if you wish, but you must use all of these):
 
(#1)
https://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/texas-turning-blue-any-second-now/
 
Articles to use from the TEXAS MONTHLY Magazine on the right side of the page linked above (use the material on the main area of the above linked article as well):
 
            (#2)
https://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/the-democrats-blue-wave-surged-but-still-did-not-look-like-a-tsunami/
(#3)
https://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/texas-democrats-election-post-mortem/
 
(#4)
https://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/latinos-biden-trump-south-texas/
 
(#5)
https://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/latinos-biden-trump-south-texas/
 
(#6)
https://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/texas-elections-2020-live-updates/
 
 
 
(#7)
https://www.city-journal.org/texas-moves-to-center
 
 
(#8)
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/10/20/texas-house-race-blue-democrat-2020-429826
 
 
(#9)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/texas-turning-blue/616978/
 
 
(#10)
http://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2020/11/02/texas-turning-blue/
 
 
(#11)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/us/politics/texas-democrats-biden.html
 
 
(#12)
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/11/04/texas-republicans-election-results/
 
 
(#13)
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/11/06/texas-trump-biden-counties-rural-suburban-city/
 
 
(#14)
https://www.governing.com/topics/politics/gov-rural-voters-governors-races.html
 
 
 
 
(#15)
https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/in-depth/2018/10/25/309021/how-the-rural-urban-divide-in-texas-politics-is-more-nuanced-than-red-versus-blue/
 
 
(#16)
https://news.virginia.edu/content/what-2020-election-results-tell-us-about-americas-growing-urban-rural-divide
 
 
(#17)
https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/news/2020/11/07/no-blue-wave-here-lubbock-south-plains-stay-very-red/6176286002/