Multiple Choice Questions

Most of the African American population of Texas is concentrated in
  • East Texas.
  • precinct chair
  • white flight.
  • Jimmy Carter
After 1994, Democrats controlled the Texas House up until ________.
  • 1994.
  • 2002
  • East Texas.
  • Jimmy Carter
Conservative Democrats in Texas are also known as
  • precinct chair
  • Blue Dog Democrats.
  • East Texas.
  • Jimmy Carter
The pattern, beginning in the 1950s, of Texans voting for a Republican president but sticking with conservative Democrats for state offices is called
  • political socialization
  • white flight.
  • county convention
  • presidential Republicanism.
The demographic changes in Texas make the state more similar to its southern neighbors because the Texas
  • Barbara Jordan.
  • New Deal economic policies and civil rights measures.
  • Democrats will become more minority and less white.
  • Hispanic; Democratic
In Texas, which group is most likely to support the Republican Party?
  • people who reside in rural areas
  • the Tea Party movement
  • provide a party label with which voters can identify
  • because pro-business Republicans have dominated state politics in recent years, and the Tea Party movement has begun to influence state legislative races as well as major statewide races
No Democrat has won Texas in a presidential race since ________.
  • Jimmy Carter
  • East Texas.
  • white flight.
  • precinct chair
What is a political party?
  • provide a party label with which voters can identify
  • people who reside in rural areas
  • an organization that seeks to elect officeholders under a given label
  • because pro-business Republicans have dominated state politics in recent years, and the Tea Party movement has begun to influence state legislative races as well as major statewide races
What is the lowest level of the permanent party organization in Texas?
  • white flight.
  • precinct chair
  • East Texas.
  • Jimmy Carter
Why are Texas Republicans considered to be in a "divided moment"?
  • provide a party label with which voters can identify
  • because pro-business Republicans have dominated state politics in recent years, and the Tea Party movement has begun to influence state legislative races as well as major statewide races
  • the Tea Party movement
  • people who reside in rural areas
The process of ________ occurs throughout our early years, when parents, religious leaders, teachers, and others influence our partisan identifications.
  • white flight.
  • county convention
  • presidential Republicanism.
  • political socialization
________ is a system of representation that encourages third-party voting because it allows each political party representation in proportion to its percentage of the total vote.
  • people who reside in rural areas
  • the Tea Party movement
  • Proportional representation
  • provide a party label with which voters can identify
The main role of the precinct conventions is to select delegates to the ________ and possibly to submit resolutions that may eventually become part of the party platform.
  • county convention
  • white flight.
  • county
  • political socialization
The most important goal of political parties is to
  • gain control of government through popular elections.
  • Texas employs what is known as a "first past the post" electoral system.
  • Blue Dog Democrats.
  • presidential Republicanism.
The ________ movement was a movement during the 1950s in which conservative Democrats in Texas supported Republican candidate Dwight Eisenhower for the presidency because many of those conservative Democrats believed that the national Democratic Party had become too liberal.
  • Shivercrat
  • Barbara Jordan.
  • Tea Party members
  • Hispanic; Democratic
The ________ convention is a meeting held by a political party following its precinct convention for the purpose of electing delegates to its state convention.
  • county
  • political socialization
  • presidential Republicanism.
  • county convention
Texas Democrats have been relegated to a minority status at the state level since
  • white flight.
  • 2002
  • 1994.
  • Jimmy Carter
The fastest-growing demographic group in Texas is ________, the majority of whom vote ________.
  • Hispanic; Democratic
  • Barbara Jordan.
  • Shivercrat
  • Tea Party members
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