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.