Essay Compare And Contrast Senate Vs Texas Government

Throughout this essay, I will be discussing the which state when compared to the Texas legislature is most similar and most different. Using the graph that compares Texas with California, Florida, New York, and Ohio. I will be giving my opinion as to why these states differ, and why they are alike. I will also be discussing the legislature education level between these states. Using the chart comparing Texas population, Texas House, and Senate, I will compare the population in Texas education, as well as the education in the House and the Senate. Also, comparing the statistics for the different gender as well as the different races for the Texas population as a whole. While using the chart to compare the overall gender and race to the percentages

I believe Ohio is the state that shares the most similarities in education level with Texas legislature. Although it has roughly 10 percent fewer graduate degrees then the Texas legislature, the amount of bachelors degrees and high school diplomas are about the same for the state of Ohio and Texas. In order to compare Texas House to the Texas Senate, the occupations have to be considered because their educational needs will match with the occupation they hold. For example, an attorney can not simply have a high school degree he must have some sort of educational background. Thirty-nine percent of Texas Senates are attorneys of some sort. They must have a bachelor’s or higher to be successful when looking at the graph it matches the statistic that fifty-nine percent of Texas Senate has Graduate degrees and only thirty-seven percent of the Texas house has Graduate degrees. Most of the Texas House representatives are business owners. Although when looking at the overall education level of Texas population you find much higher percentages for lower education level. People want representatives with educational background. When comparing the education level of Texas population to the house and the Senate, other things have to be taken into account, it is the population as a whole, not just the legislature. Only 19 percent of Texas overall population has high school degrees only. Both the Texas House and Senate have zero

However, Texas population overall is about fifty percent male and fifty percent female. When talking about the different races in the Texas House and Senate, the majority of them are White. White Americans hold sixty-six percent of the Texas House, and Seventy percent of the Texas Senate. They are followed in line by the Latinos which holds roughly twenty percent of Texas House and twenty-three percent of the Senate. These numbers are not even close considering that the overall population only has forty-three percent whites, and is made up of thirty-nine percent Latino. I believe that if there is too much of a difference in race, education, and gender between the general public and the people they choose to represent them, the legislature could not have the public best interest at heart. How could a White male with a graduate degree who owns his own business possible understand the needs of a Latino woman with only a high school diploma who works as a maid? The majority of the Texas Hous and Senate are White males who have a degree of some sort, and the only view that he could possibly understand is how to help better people with his same stature. This reflected now with debates and issues at hand now, they have good intention trying to make Texas a better state to be apart of but, is ultimately unable to see how the decision they make affect general public as a