Texas, one of America’s most famously distinctive states, is being radically transformed at a time when its residents are developing a much stronger local identity. Generally, some 27% of white Texans (Heritage Texans), now consider themselves to be Texan first before any other identity [Texan First, American Second, Texas Politics Project, April 3, 2014].

Among male Texans, 32% consider themselves Texan first. But among those aged 18 to 29, some 40% consider themselves Texan first. However, this unique identity, created by pioneering Anglo-Americans and European settlers in the fires of war and revolution against Mexico, is being buried by rapid demographic change. The good news: It can be reversed.

Some 60% of white Texans identify as Conservatives, while 65% of whites voted for Trump in both the 2016 and 2020 elections. In contrast, some 90% of blacks in Texas 63% of Asians in Texas, and 60% of Hispanics in Texas voted for current President Joseph Biden in the 2020 election [Party affiliation among adults in Texas by race/ethnicity, Pew Research Center].

76% of blacks in Texas identify with the Democratic party, while 57% of Latinos voted blue in key 2022 midterm races and 44% identify as on the left of the political spectrum [Chart: How U.S. Latinos Voted in the 2022 Midterm Election, by Jennifer Vilcarino and Chase Harrison, Council of the Americas, November 17, 2022].

Some 31% claim they favor neither side while only 25% of Latinos in Texas identify as Conservatives.

Note that this great mass of politically discordant recent immigrants and their descendants has been imported by the post-1965 immigration policies of successive Democrat and Republican administrations in Washington.

In 1940, the Texan population was 74.1% non-Hispanic white, a share which it had held for the majority of the state’s existence. By 1970, five years after the Hart-Celler Immigration Act of 1965, the white population of Texas was still 71%. By the 1990 census, white Texans had fallen to 60.6% of their own state’s population. As of the 2020 census, white Texans comprise just 39.7% of the Texan population.

Hispanics in Texas have seen a population explosion. From their historic minority status at roughly 11.5% of the state’s population in 1940, they had increased to 16.4% by 1970 and 25.5% of the state’s population by 1990. As of 2020 Hispanics in Texas comprise 39.3% of the state’s population.

Blacks in Texas retain their historical average at about 12% of the state’s population. And between 1970 and 2020 the Asian population of Texas has increased from 0.2% to 5.4%—a remarkable rise in barely half a century.

If it were not for mass immigration, both legal and illegal, Texas today would probably have a population that was firmly in line with its historic average: some 70% white, 20% black, and 11% Hispanic. The state’s population would have been around 17 million, instead of the current 30.5 million. Texas would look familiar to the generations of Texans who built the state.

Historic  American Texans today must fight to restore Texas to a demographic and cultural condition that their ancestors would recognize—and that their descendants will thank them for.

Despite all of these recent trends, white Texans still compose 59% of their state’s electorate and this allows them to act. With the notoriously slow rate of growth in Latino voter political engagement, Historic Texans have at least 15 years to organize along explicitly racial lines and take their fight to both Austin and Washington, D.C.

The foreign-born populace is the natural place to start in any attempt to repatriate recent immigrants from Texas. Some 56.6% of immigrants in the state do not have U.S. citizenship and are therefore easily removed. Canceling the visas, enforcing immigration law, and revoking the Green Cards of these non-citizens would enable the removal of some three million people, 84% of whom would be Hispanic and Asian.

Some 1.6 million of these individuals would also be illegal aliens in the state (there are actually many more illegal aliens in Texas, as I have written about here or here, but we are using official statistics for this piece).

On the tail of these adult immigrant departures would be the departure of their children. I personally take a strong stance against family separation—immigrants who leave the United State must take their underage children with them, even if they are technically American citizens under the current misinterpretation of the 14th Amendment. (Birthright Citizenship must be abolished.) Enforcing this policy would see up to 2.4 million additional people depart Texas.

Simply enforcing immigration law, and refusing to renew visas or Green Cards, would see up to 5.2 million people depart Texas. And it would increase the white Texan population from 39.7% to 47% of the state’s overall population—all without stripping a single person of their American citizenship.

With illegal aliens, resident aliens, and non-U.S. citizens out of the way, this brings us to the very large naturalized and immigrant-descended population in the state that is in possession of a U.S. passport.

The most efficient method to deal with this population: mandatory review of their citizenship and immigration paperwork, specifically in the realm of family reunification.

Some 70% of immigrants in the United States are admitted based on family ties, not for work or school [U.S. Family-Based Immigration Policy, Congressional Research Service, February 9, 2018]. This means that a large portion of people who have acquired U.S. citizenship are likely to have done so fraudulently.

The proof of this: a 2008 incident wherein the U.S. State Department discovered, through DNA testing, that over 80% of individuals admitted into the U.S. as family members of “refugees” were not related to that individual [Fraud in the Refugee Family Reunification (Priority Three) Program, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, December 4, 2008].

The U.S. government has since mandated DNA testing for refugees who request their family members come to the U.S. But this DNA testing mandate has not been put in place for any other category of family reunification.

By simply requiring proof that immigrants are related through marriage and birth certificates, and, yes, DNA testing, it is likely that more than half of naturalized U.S. citizens in Texas, and the country as a whole, could have their citizenship revoked on the grounds of fraud.

Citizenship can also be revoked on the grounds of felonies committed before a person becomes naturalized.

This process could, assuming a generously low fraud rate of just 65% (in all likelihood, the fraud rate is closer to the aforementioned 80%), result in 1.4 million naturalized immigrants in the state of Texas losing their U.S. citizenship and being removed from the state and from the U.S.

This brings the repatriated total up to some 6.6 million people. This combination of policies would restore the white Texan population to majority status (if just barely and only when using official statistics).

And of course the Texas electorate would be much more whiter—perhaps above 80 per percent.

If the state of Texas were controlled by immigration patriots, it could undertake many of these actions itself. The state could pass mandatory E-verify laws to deal with the illegal alien population. And no law prevents state agencies from investigating suspected immigration fraud and bringing the cases before Federal courts to begin the denaturalization process.

To deal with legal aliens who hold visas or green cards, Texas should pass laws like those passed by Louisiana and Florida that ban or limit foreigners from buying, renting, or leasing property within the state, generally within a certain radius of critical infrastructure.

If it wants to remain Texas. And/or American.

James Karlsson (email him) is the founder and director of the White-Papers Policy Institute. Read them on Substack, follow them on Twitter, and message them on Telegram.