Sources: U.S. Census 2013 estimate, Texas Legislative Reference Library, 2013 Gallup survey (Illustration by Joanna Wojtkowiak)

State of Texas: Government by the Few

by Kelsey Jukam and Patrick Michels

March 16, 2015, 12:30 PM, CDT

A version of this story ran in the February 2015 issue.

SOT_Feb15_R2-rev2 — Sources: U.S. Census 2013 estimate, Texas Legislative Reference Library, 2013 Gallup survey

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