After Texas flipped blue in the midterm elections, political observers are discussing what the longterm implications of the elections could mean for Democrats and Republicans in the state.

The GOP stronghold delivered numerous high-profile wins for Democrats including a U.S. Senate seat, the governorship and control of the state house.

That's led some to say that the state has turned blue."The scope and scale of the Democratic victories here is something that nobody was predicting," said Joshua Blank, research director of the Texas Politics Project at UT Austin.