More at the Washington Post on the November 2 electoral tsunami.  The devastation is becoming more clear with time. The impacts on election law ranging from voter ID to redistricting cannot be overstated.  One can’t but think this disaster wouldn’t have happened if Hillary had been elected instead.:

Money quote on Texas:
 
Texas Monthly’s Paul Burka, who has followed state politics for three decades, called the results of the midterm elections in the Lone Star State “an annihilation bordering on political genocide.” Democrats may not be a factor in state politics for a decade, he wrote in a column for the magazine’s December edition.
 
Key excerpt:
 
Republicans picked up at least 675 state legislative seats Nov. 2. As with the increases in the House, that gain is the biggest any party has made in state legislative seats since 1938 and is far larger than the GOP’s tally in its 1994 landslide. Given the distribution of those gains, Republicans have the power to work their will in the states in ways they can’t begin to think about doing in Washington.
Before the midterm elections, Democrats controlled 27 state legislatures outright. Republicans were in charge in 14 states, and eight states were split. (Nebraska, which has a single legislative chamber, is officially nonpartisan). Today, Republicans control 26 state legislatures, Democrats 17, and five have split control. In New York, officials are still determining who is in charge in the state Senate. Republicans control seven more legislatures outright than they did after 1994 and the most since 1952.
Add the results in the gubernatorial races, and the picture brightens even more for the Republicans. Before the midterms, Republicans controlled the governor’s mansion and both legislative chambers in only nine states. Today it is 21 states. Democrats are in full command in 11 states, down from 16, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL).
 
The changes came in some unlikely places. The NCSL says on its Web site that Alabama’s legislature is in Republican hands for the first time since Reconstruction. Republicans hold the North Carolina Senate for the first time since 1870 and the Minnesota Senate for the first time ever.