DALLAS _ Packed into the Christian Chapel Temple of Faith on a rainy Sunday evening this month were plenty of the minority voters Texas Republicans say have kept their party in power even as the state's demographics shift in favor of Democrats.
"(When) you say, 'I'm fiscally conservative,' people look at you kinda strange, like, how can that be?" said Deborah Smith, a leader of the multiethnic Dallas Interfaith Alliance. "Just because you care about people (doesn't) mean you just want to print money and blow it up."
Texas Republicans have long credited their focus on pocketbook issues for their unusually high political support among minority voters _ particularly the Hispanic community that's expected to overtake whites as the state's largest population group in 2022.
