Texas needs a Democratic Party messaging operation
Home states and districts are usually loyal to their senators and representatives in times of political crisis. But the continued support for Mr. Cruz among Texas Republicans illustrates something larger: the cultural and political divide that continues to widen between a red state that President Obama lost by nearly 16 points in the 2012 election and the blue or even purple parts of the country where Mr. Cruzs tone and tactics have caused outrage and consternation.
Texas is not America, said Matt Mackowiak, a Republican political consultant in Austin and the former spokesman for Mr. Cruzs Republican predecessor in the Senate, Kay Bailey Hutchison. Its in America, but its not America. National polls dont mean anything. Democrats havent won a statewide office in Texas since 1994. There are no Peter Kings in Texas.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/19/us/politics/texans-stick-with-cruz-despite-defeat-in-washington.html?hp