{"id":10262,"date":"2011-06-29T17:16:29","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T21:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=10262"},"modified":"2011-06-29T17:16:29","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T21:16:29","slug":"texas%e2%80%99-castro-brothers-herald-new-face-of-state%e2%80%99s-democratic-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/10262\/texas%e2%80%99-castro-brothers-herald-new-face-of-state%e2%80%99s-democratic-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas\u2019 Castro Brothers Herald New Face of State\u2019s Democratic Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For anyone interested in whom the Texas Democratic Party will look to for leadership in the very near, consider rising twin brothers Julian and Joaquin Castro.\u00a0 Both are Stanford and Harvard Law graduates.\u00a0 Both represent San Antonio \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanantonio.gov\/mayor\/ \" target=\"_blank\">Julian as mayor<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/joaquincastro.com\/about-us.php \" target=\"_blank\">Joaquin as a state representative<\/a>.\u00a0 Each is being groomed for higher office.<\/p>\n<p>From his perch as San Antonio mayor, Julian could very likely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.governing.com\/blogs\/politics\/Julian-Castro-Frontrunner.html\" target=\"_blank\">seek the Democratic nomination for governor<\/a> in 2014.\u00a0 By then, current Republican Governor Rick Perry will either be in the White House or in an uphill battle for election to his fourth term in office.\u00a0 (Perry doesn\u2019t have a history of landslides.\u00a0 In 2006, he won a four-way race with 36% of the popular vote.\u00a0 In 2010, he won just 51% in a three-way primary after more than a decade as governor.)<\/p>\n<p>For his part, Joaquin <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/issues\/56_146\/doggett_draws_democratic_duel-206840-1.html?ET=rollcall:e10493:80108870a:&amp;st=email&amp;pos=epol\" target=\"_blank\">just announced a primary challenge<\/a> to nine-term Democratic congressman Lloyd Doggett.\u00a0 A new redistricting map connects south Austin with San Antonio, making the state legislator a natural fit to represent the two cities he\u2019s spent the most time in since being elected to office.<\/p>\n<p>Texas\u2019 demographic trend mirrors California.\u00a0 Currently, no race is a majority in Texas, but by the end of the decade, <a href=\"http:\/\/dallasfed.org\/research\/pubs\/fotexas\/fotexas_petersen.html \" target=\"_blank\">Hispanics will be<\/a>.\u00a0 With the state and federal legislative delegations increasingly split between Anglo Republican and minority Democrats, don\u2019t be surprised if someday Julian Castro becomes governor while his brother Joaquin serves in the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For anyone interested in whom the Texas Democratic Party will look to for leadership in the very near, consider rising twin brothers Julian and Joaquin Castro.\u00a0 Both are Stanford and Harvard Law graduates.\u00a0 Both represent San Antonio \u2013 Julian as mayor; Joaquin as a state representative.\u00a0 Each is being groomed for higher office. From his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[299,646,2451,2449,2813,2812,2814,838,561],"class_list":["post-10262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-california","tag-democratic-party","tag-demography","tag-hispanic","tag-joaquin-castro","tag-julian-castro","tag-lloyd-doggett","tag-rick-perry","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10262"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10265,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10262\/revisions\/10265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}