President-elect Donald Trump during Tuesday’s election flipped a Texas border county that has not been won by a Republican candidate since the late 19th century.
With 99 percent of Texas’ votes counted, a projection from The Associated Press shows that Starr County went in favor of Trump by more than 57 percent, ending a more than 120-year streak.
U.S. Census Bureau data show about 97 percent of the county’s population is Hispanic or Latino. The county has not backed a Republican presidential candidate since 1892, according to the Cook Political Report.
Starr County, which has a population of around 66,000 people, went to Democratic candidates in recent elections. Hillary Clinton won 79 percent of the county’s vote against Trump in 2016, while President Joe Biden obtained 52 percent to Trump’s 47 percent in 2020.
Aside from Starr County, most other Texas counties located along the U.S.–Mexico border went in favor of Trump. That includes Hildago County, a key illegal border crossing area, as well as Cameron County, which encompasses the city of Brownsville, according to AP projections. […]
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