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Might I point out that there is a significant problem with articles of this sort. We do have a very partisan split in the legislature, but most bills are not quite as obviously partisan as some people would think. Some bills match one of the parties platforms and have a counter plank in the other parties platform, but not nearly as many as some people would have you believe.

So, what this means is that a bill can be counted as a Democrat win in a Republican legislature when it is just good policy if it was introduced by a Democrat, even if there was no Republican opposition to the idea.

For anyone who claims that Texas was "purple" in its actions, I would ask them to look at each parties major issues that are dear to the core group and see what passed. Compare things like same-sex marriage, abortion, gun control, minimum wage increases, environmentalism, etc. I certainly do not see it as 100% blue, but it is not very purple either.