089s with the election of ann richards as a liberal democrat but since then texas has been solidly republicn every statewide office has been won by a republican candidate and yet the cities are these blue spots on the map. that's they state of where we are now. right now there's a senate election happening in texas, a couple years ago we had a rather were publicked gubernatorial x-rays people in america are asking, is texas going to turn blue, when? what the factors that are going to be part of that. there's number of less beyond that give us some insaying. -- insight. the fit i what made the democratic coalition successful was that it succeeded -- it connected high politics politice electoral arena to grassroots social movements, particularly to morally driven, incentury general sits about fundamental human rights. when the coalition trade to do just politics, it doesn't win. when its trade to overlook deeper issues and couldn't -- didn't win but the more liberal it became, the more explicitly integrationist, and the more committed it became to embracing unruly tactics the more effective it