[2] The Terrell Election Law created a poll tax that, from 1902, disenfranchised virtually all remaining African-American voters, the vast majority of Mexican Americans, and also most poor whites.

Nonetheless, this impeachment actually was to spur James to run in the ensuing presidential election,[6] although despite attempting to do so he did not obtain ballot access in any of the other forty-seven states.

[7] By the time the 1920 presidential election season was to begin, President Wilson was hated by German and Irish Americans for his entry into the war and his role in drafting the Treaty of Versailles and supporting many anti-German groups during the "Red Scare".

[9] Despite the hostility towards Wilson and James M. Cox – who had banned German-language instruction in public schools as Governor of Ohio – amongst German-Americans and some isolationists, Texas was too solidly Democratic for there to be any threat from even the largest popular-vote landslide in United States presidential election history.

It is true that Cox's performance was the worst by a Democrat since the complete disfranchisement of Texas' black population by the 1902 poll tax,[10] but losses from hostility to Wilsonian foreign policy were much less pronounced than in French Louisiana or the Ozarks.