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Question 1.
From 1874 to 1961, no Republican won a statewide office in Texas.


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Question 2.
The elites were able to institutionalize their control after the Civil War by eradicating the Jim Crow laws.


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Question 3.
The Democratic Party in Texas was characterized by bifactionalism during the first third of the twentieth century.

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Question 4.
The Democratic Party is strongly represented among Native Texans.


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Question 5.
The Republican Party is disproportionately represented among those younger than fifty.


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Question 6.
Texas enacted a poll tax in 1902, and retained it for state and local elections until 1966.

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Question 7.
In 1944, the Texas white primary was finally eliminated as a result of the Supreme Court’s decision in Jones v. Allwright.


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Question 8.
At the state level, the party state chair and vice chair must have one of the positions filled by a woman.

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Question 9.
A "yellow dog" in Texas politics refers to a straight party voting Republican.

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Question 10.
There is no hierarchical arrangement to party organization in Texas.

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