George Will frets about Republicans losing Texas, because that's where things are headed

Democrats have long talked about Texas’ changing demographics, and the possibility of turning it Blue sometime in the future. That future is always farther away than we’d like, but the numbers are the numbers. And while Republicans have always scoffed and laughed at the notion, George Will becomes the first prominent Republican to raise the alarm, citing numbers pulled up by the state GOP’s former chairman, saying Texas might “turn Democratic sooner than most people thought.”

The fact that Republicans have won every Texas statewide office since 1994 — the longest such streak in the nation — gives them, he says, “a false sense of security.” In 2000, Republican candidates at the top of the ticket — in statewide races — averaged about 60 percent of the vote. By 2008, they averaged less than 53 percent. And Republican down-ballot winners averaged slightly over 51 percent.

Texas is 84.7 percent urban, and has four of the nation’s 11 largest cities—all solidly Democratic.