Democratic strength is chiefly concentrated in the central, certain southern areas, and northern part of the county.

Then came the November 4, 1958, election and new Democratic strength in the Senate.

Not a time of impregnable Democratic strength, certainly.

In all this, Senator Wilson is expected to make inroads into traditional areas of Democratic strength.

Democratic strength is found in the city of Houston and the suburbs that surround the city limits.

But there's more compelling evidence the other way, starting with continuing Democratic strength in Congress and state capitols.

But Republicans have worked hard to neutralize those Democratic strengths by advancing proposals of their own.

Others believe that many voters' purely material ambitions explain Christian Democratic strength.

But an area of traditional Democratic strength had also weakened.

"And it is another kitchen-table issue like education that were Democratic strengths that we are taking away from them."