Ted Cruz getting booed at a UT game is funny, but the enrollment data behind the university is far more interesting.
From 2012 to 2025, across the UT system, their own data shows:
White enrollment: −15,488
Hispanic: +35,746
Asian: +13,215
Black: +2,828
International: +1,104
At UT Austin alone, White enrollment fell 6,310 while Asian enrollment rose 4,088 and Hispanic enrollment rose 3,920.
And if the 2012–2025 trends simply follow the current trajectory, system-wide White share will fall from 19.6% today to ~8.6% by 2035.
So yes, Ted got booed.
But the bigger story is that Texas has watched its flagship public-university system undergo an extraordinary demographic transformation in roughly one decade.
Maybe Texas politicians should start asking how it happened and do something about it.
Ted Cruz getting booed way worse than Ohio State or Oklahoma down in Austin