But in the last decade or so, demographic changes in the county have been trending toward residents who are younger and minorities, groups who tend to vote Democratic, said Brandon Rottinghaus, a political science professor at the University of Houston.
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All of these problems will impede the city's efforts to invest in its future, one where Houston is trying to move away from an economy tied mainly to the oil industry, said Brandon Rottinghaus, a University of Houston political science professor.
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