# Don’t blame the blue wave on racial demographics

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/dont-blame-the-blue-wave-on-racial-demographics/
- Published: 2026-11-05T16:28:32+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-05T21:56:31+00:00
- Original publisher: Washington Examiner (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/4794029/dont-blame-the-blue-wave-on-racial-demographics/
- Topics: Elections, Politics

## Key points

- Benny Johnson linked Texas’s Democratic shift to changing demographics.
- The article says his comparison overlooks how older data classified Hispanic residents.
- It argues Republicans should examine their political miscalculations.

## Summary

After Texas appeared to turn Democratic in the midterm elections, conservative influencer Benny Johnson attributed the result to the state’s changing racial demographics, writing that “demographics is destiny”. The article criticises this explanation as scapegoating, arguing that it avoids examining the political choices and miscalculations behind the Republican losses.

Johnson cited a fall in Texas’s White population share, from 89% in 1970 to under 39% today, but the article says his comparison omits important context: older figures counted Hispanic residents as White, and Texas elected Democrats in the 1970s. The excerpt provides no detailed election results or further analysis of the wider “blue wave”.

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