11 Facts About Ruy Teixeira

Ruy Teixeira is an American political scientist and commentator who has written several books on various topics in political science and political strategy.

Ruy Teixeira is most noted for his work on political demography, and particularly for The Emerging Democratic Majority, which he co-wrote with John Judis, a book arguing that the Democratic Party are demographically destined to become a majority party in the United States of the early 21st century.

Ruy Teixeira writes and edits the weblog The Democratic Strategist.

Ruy Teixeira has one older sibling, Diogo Teixeira, a businessman, and one younger half-brother, Bernardo de Albergaria, a marketing executive.

Ruy Teixeira's parents were divorced when he was quite young, and he grew up strongly influenced by his mother, who was an artist, painter, and teacher.

Ruy Teixeira skipped a grade in junior high and graduated from Bethesda Chevy Chase High School at the age of sixteen.

Ruy Teixeira left consulting after several years and took a government job at the Economic Research Service, where he studied labor market issues, chiefly the so-called skills mismatch between low-skilled and high-skilled workers.

In 1994, Ruy Teixeira went to work at another think tank, the Economic Policy Institute, to direct their politics and public opinion program, and he stayed there until 1999.

Ruy Teixeira has been a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution, where he co-directed a joint Brookings-American Enterprise Institute project on political demography and geography, "the Future of Red, Blue and, Purple America", and wrote a series of reports with William Frey on the political geography of battleground states in the 2008 election.

Ruy Teixeira is the author or co-author of six books, including Red, Blue and Purple America: The Future of Election Demographics; The Emerging Democratic Majority; America's Forgotten Majority: Why the White Working Class Still Matters; and The Disappearing American Voter, as well as hundreds of articles, both scholarly and popular.

Ruy Teixeira writes Public Opinion Snapshot, a weekly feature on the CAP and TCF websites.