Hispanic Voters in Texas Are More Concerned Than White Voters There About Increasing Racial Diversity
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Stock photo of a welcome sign in Texas. Voters in the state were found in a recent poll to be more concerned about increased diversity.
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A new poll of Texas voters shows Hispanic respondents are more likely to say they are concerned about the increasing racial diversity in the state than white voters.
Thirty-two percent of Hispanic voters in Texas said growing racial and ethnic diversity is a cause for concern, compared to 28 percent of white voters who answered the same in the poll conducted by the University of Texas and the
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The Republican-led effort to allow Texans to carry handguns without any kind of license cleared what is likely its biggest remaining hurdle in the Capitol on Wednesday, when the Texas Senate moved in a nail-biter vote to bring the measure to the floor and then passed it.
The measure – already passed by the Texas House – heads to a conference committee for the two chambers to hash out their differences, unless the House accepts the Senate amendments. Then, the bill heads to Gov. Greg Abbott, who said last week he would sign the permitless carry bill into law.
President-elect Joe Biden during a briefing where he delivered remarks on the nation s response to the COVID-19 outbreak on Dec. 29, 2020. Credit: REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
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Texas Democrats think Joe Biden is doing a good job as president, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
Texas Republicans don’t.
Overall, the president gets good grades from 44% of Texas voters and bad grades from 46% numbers that are better or roughly the same as the state’s most popular Republican leaders. Underneath Biden’s overall numbers, as with other officeholders in Texas, are starker partisan grades: 88% of Democrats said Biden is doing a good job, and 86% of Republicans disapprove of the work he’s doing.
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President-elect Joe Biden during a briefing where he delivered remarks on the nation s response to the COVID-19 outbreak on Dec. 29, 2020. Credit: REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Texas Democrats think Joe Biden is doing a good job as president, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
Texas Republicans don’t.
Overall, the president gets good grades from 44% of Texas voters and bad grades from 46% numbers that are better or roughly the same as the state’s most popular Republican leaders. Underneath Biden’s overall numbers, as with other officeholders in Texas, are starker partisan grades: 88% of Democrats said Biden is doing a good job, and 86% of Republicans disapprove of the work he’s doing.
Unaccompanied migrant boys during the one hour they get for exercise at the CBP migrant processing center in El Paso on March 29, 2021. Credit: Ivan Pierre Aguirre for The Texas Tribune
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Texas voters concerns reflect a surge at the state’s Mexican border, UT/TT Poll finds
The pandemic and the border top the list of Texas voters’ concerns about issues facing the country, with 16% pointing to the coronavirus and 16% choosing immigration and border security as the top issues, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.