schaller. i teased texas before the break i was very respectful, but abby you wrote about this for the american prospect series we re talking about. i want to set this up by putting up a telling statistic about texas. these are the state s demographics according to 201 kr census. you look at that and you say, i totally get why democrats are always talking about turning text next blue. say, why haven t they done it already? this is the actual turnout pattern, 2010. we didn t have numbers for 2012 because they didn t do an exit poll in 2013. whites, 67%. latino, 17%. black, 13%. asian, 1%. abby, what s going on in texas? well, i think one of the things that s been a real problem in texas is you ve always had this fight over the white vote, right? which we were eluding e ing tin the rest of the south as well. and texas demographics are