Starting in the 1800’s Texas has had a nearly a century of Democratic Party dominance. At Philadelphia in 1787 the Federalist and Anti-Federalists had a debate over the ratification of the new United states Constitution. For a while there was only the Federalists. Most of the nations history there has been two major parties, the Republican Party and the Democratic. Since the 1968 till now there has not been one to completely dominate for long periods at a time. However with that being said Texas has a much different history for its self. Political parties in Texas were slower to develop. The Republic of Texas is what Texas was called while it was an independent nation due to not having political parties. Except for a short period of time
