Texas Tribune: Can Texas Republicans hold America’s reddest large urban county?

FORT WORTH — Even though he can openly carry a handgun in Texas with the right permit, Jonathan Grummer thinks that still doesn't allow him enough freedom in a country where his rights are enshrined in the Constitution.

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Residents, elected officials and experts here point to a nuanced union of demographic, cultural and political forces to explain why.

"There's just all kinds of interesting numbers out there that make Tarrant County a lot different," said U.S. Rep. Marc Veasey of Fort Worth, the only Democrat holding one of the county's five congressional seats.

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Veasey, the Democratic congressman, thinks the changing population could soon help give his party a boost at the polls.

"I'm not saying we're going to win Tarrant County yet," he said. "But I do think that we are going to be in the best position we've been in in a long, long time."