The era of one-party dominance in Texas by the Democratic Party lasted

A) about 110 years, from the end of Reconstruction to the 1980s.
B) about 165 years, from the creation of the Republic until today.
C) about 50 years, from the end of Reconstruction until the end of World War I. D) from the start of the oil boom in the early 1900s until the beginning of the twenty-first century.
E) from the landslide election of Democratic President Franklin Roosevelt in 1932 until the landslide re-election of Republican President Richard Nixon in 1972.

Answer: A