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The state's conservative white voters began to support Republican presidential candidates by the mid-20th century After this period they supported Republicans for local and state offices as well and most whites became Republican Party members the party also attracted some minorities but many have continued to vote for Democratic candidates the shift to the Republican Party is much-attributed to the fact that the Democratic Party became increasingly liberal during the 20th century and thus increasingly out-of-touch with the average Texas voter as Texas was always a conservative state voters switched to the GOP which now more closely reflected their beliefs. Commentators have also attributed the shift to Republican political consultant Karl Rove who managed numerous political campaigns in Texas in the 1980s and 90s. Other stated reasons included court-ordered redistricting and the demographic shift in relation to the Sun Belt that favored the Republican Party and conservatism. .

Contents In the 1870s white Democrats wrested power back in the state legislature from the biracial coalition at the end of Reconstruction in the early 20th century the legislature passed bills to impose poll taxes followed by white primaries; these measures effectively disfranchised most blacks poor whites and Mexican Americans in the 1890s 100,000 blacks voted in the state; by 1906 only 5,000 could vote. As a result the Democratic Party dominated Texas politics from the turn of the century imposing racial segregation and white supremacy it held power until after passage in the mid-1960s of national civil rights legislation enforcing constitutional rights of all citizens. James W Flanagan settled in Henderson Rusk County, In June 1979 the Ixtoc I oil platform in the Bay of Campeche suffered a blowout leading to a catastrophic explosion which resulted in a massive oil spill that continued for nine months before the well was finally capped This was ranked as the largest oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico until the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, The 1200 Jail the headquarters of the Harris County Sheriff's Office. On 27 January 1944 Soviet troops launched a major offensive that expelled German forces from the Leningrad region thereby ending the longest and most lethal siege in history the following Soviet offensive was halted on the pre-war Estonian border by the German Army Group North aided by Estonians hoping to re-establish national independence This delay slowed subsequent Soviet operations in the Baltic Sea region by late May 1944 the Soviets had liberated Crimea largely expelled Axis forces from Ukraine and made incursions into Romania which were repulsed by the Axis troops the Allied offensives in Italy had succeeded and at the expense of allowing several German divisions to retreat on 4 June Rome was captured, 1940 384,514 31.5% Ralph Yarborough born in Chandler Henderson County The Alamo Mission painted 10 years after the battle. Other technological and engineering feats achieved during or as a result of the war include the world's first programmable computers (Z3 Colossus and ENIAC) guided missiles and modern rockets the Manhattan Project's development of nuclear weapons operations research and the development of artificial harbours and oil pipelines under the English Channel.[citation needed] Penicillin was first mass-produced and used during the war (see Stabilization and mass production of penicillin). . Racial composition 1970 1990 2000 2010 Small single-story structure with pitched roof a center door is flanked by a window on each side Wide stairs lead to a wide front porch with wood railing, December 7 2017: 0.7 inches (2 cm) of snow, In 1973 the Astros installed an all-AstroTurf infield except for dirt cutouts around the bases This "sliding pit" configuration was introduced by Cincinnati with the opening of Riverfront Stadium on June 30 1970 it was then installed in the new stadiums in Philadelphia in 1971 and Kansas City in 1973 the artificial turf fields of Pittsburgh St Louis and San Francisco all installed in 1970 were traditionally configured like the Astrodome and later changed to sliding pits San Francisco converted in 1971 Pittsburgh in 1973 and St Louis in 1978 Rogers Centre in Toronto was the last park in the majors that had sliding pits; it opened in 1989 and switched to a traditional dirt skin infield in 2016.