More election analysis

I have gone looking for more info about the astonishing results in the South. I wanted to see how votes had shifted according to race in South Carolina, Mississippi, and Texas to bring about these astonishing results. Unfortunately, damn it, there were no 2024 exit polls in SC or MS--I'm sure CNN thought, why bother? So I'm left with Texas. The distribution of the electorate hardly changed at all. The 2024 poll showed 55 percent whites, 26 percent Latino, 11 percent black, 4 percent Asian; the 2026 figures are 55, 24 (Latino vote DOWN), 12, 4. The Democratic white vote went from 33 percent to 42; Latino, 45 percent [sic] to 68; black, 86 percent to 90; Asian, 42 percent to 71. If you look at both the swings and the total shares of the electorate, it was clearly the Democrats' 23 percent swing among Hispanics and their 9 point swing among white voters that generated the landslide victory. Generations played a huge role. The generational breakdown of the total Texas vote was the same,…

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