The 10-term Democrat has emphasized conservative issues and political independence in his increasingly Republican district.

His home turf - the increasingly Republican outer suburbs - now accounts for a third of the statewide vote.

That kind of crusading spirit is disappearing in the increasingly Republican South, and in its newspapers, Mr. Carter said.

The 10th, which had once been represented by Lyndon Johnson, had long been a liberal Democratic bastion in increasingly Republican Texas.

Most of those who wished to continue a constitutional monarchy (against the increasingly republican legislature) wished Lafayette to succeed Bailly as mayor.

He left Congress when he faced what would have been a difficult re-election fight in 1968 in increasingly Republican Central Florida.

The rural areas of the district, once solidly Democratic, had turned increasingly Republican since the turn of the century.

It's been an increasingly Republican state for the last 10 years, mostly in the suburbs.

His Democratic politics may have been a disadvantage in an increasingly Republican region and his civic minded gestures helped others who did not always help him in return.

Despite this district's increasingly Republican tilt, Hall won 10 more terms as a Democrat with an average of 60 percent of the vote.