Texas

because they downplayed a. Not-so-well-hidden attitude common among many Texas conservatives—that Latinos, at least Texas Mexican-Americans—weren’t the same as Euro-Americans and allowed more conservative Mexican-Americans to believe that they had a place at the table of the Texas Republican Party.

This started to change when Texas Republicans decided to make undocumented border crossings an issue while Biden was President. It has changed even further after Trump got inaugurated again last year, with the heavy-handed ICE arrests and the more and more open racist rhetoric spouted by Texas Republican activists and influencers.

“Deporting the brown people!” May play well in the fish-bowls of right-wing Texas Republican Party gatherings, but not so well with an increasingly-wary general electorate.