Editing Gillespie County, Texas (section)

==Politics==
Gillespie County is part of the 21st District in the [[United States House of Representatives]], represented by Republican [[Chip Roy]], the 25th district of the [[Texas State Senate]], represented by Republican [[Donna Campbell]], and the 19th District of the Texas House of Representatives and is represented by Republican [[Ellen Troxclair]].

Historically, the county was a massive outlier in Texas. While Texas was overwhelmingly Democratic up until recent decades, Gillespie County has long been a Republican stronghold. This is largely due to the heavily [[German American]] heritage of the county and that Gillespie was the fountainhead of Texas’ small [[Southern Unionist|Unionist]] movement during [[American Civil War|the Civil War]]. Most [[German Texan|Texas Germans]] acquiesced to secession, but Fredericksburg was still self-sufficient and sold surplus food to the army.<ref>Bünger, Walter L.; ‘Secession and the Texas German Community: Editor Lindheimer vs. Editor Flake’; ''The Southwestern Historical Quarterly'', Vol. 82, No. 4 (Apr. 1979), pp. 379-402</ref>

Gillespie County has been won by Republicans in every election since [[1896 United States presidential election|1896]] with only four exceptions. Theodore Roosevelt's [[Progressive Party (United States, 1912)|Progressive Party]] won the county in 1912 (but carried no other counties in the state). In 1924, it was one of only two Texas counties won by [[Progressive Party (United States, 1924)|Progressive]] candidate [[Robert M. La Follette]].<ref>[http://geoelections.free.fr/USA/elec_comtes/1896.htm Presidential election of 1896] (and subsequent years)</ref> Gillespie County has backed a Democratic nominee only twice since the 19th century: in 1932 and 1964,<ref>Sullivan, Robert David; [http://www.americamagazine.org/content/unconventional-wisdom/how-red-and-blue-map-evolved-over-past-century ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’]; ''America Magazine'' in ''The National Catholic Review''; June 29, 2016</ref> both of which were landslide victories for the party, and the latter being for county native [[Lyndon Johnson]]. No Democrat since [[Jimmy Carter]] in 1976<ref>[http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/datagraph.php?year=1976&fips=48&f=1&off=0&elect=0 1976 Presidential General Election Data Graphs – Texas by County]</ref> has received so much as 22 percent of the county's vote.<ref>[http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/results/president/map.html?scp=1&sq=%22election%20map&st=cse The New York Times electoral map (Zoom in on Texas)]</ref>

[[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] won the county by almost 60 percentage points in 1932, despite the county's massive Republican lean. At his fourth and final election in 1944, he received less than one-tenth of its vote – a decline of more than 70 percentage points from his first election in the county.

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