How Democrats turned Texas blue

AUSTIN — For three decades, Texas has been the white whale of Democratic politics — the most elusive of trophies, tantalizingly out of reach.

Not since 1994, before more than 40 percent of living Texans were born, had Democrats won a single statewide office. But on Tuesday, the party so long out of power swept every one of those races and flipped one chamber of the legislature in an epic feat with few if any parallels in modern politics.