Ruy Teixeira was born in Washington, DC, the son of a
Portuguese diplomat, and grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland. joining the American Enterprise Institute as a nonresident senior fellow focusing "on the transformation of the party coalitions and the future of American electoral politics". Teixeira is the author or co-author of six books, including
Red, Blue and Purple America: The Future of Election Demographics;
The Emerging Democratic Majority; ''America's Forgotten Majority: Why the White Working Class Still Matters
; and The Disappearing American Voter
, as well as hundreds of articles, both scholarly and popular. He also writes Public Opinion Snapshot'', a weekly feature on the CAP and TCF websites. Teixeira's book
The Emerging Democratic Majority, written with
John Judis (
Scribner, 2002), was the most widely discussed political book of that year and generated praise across the political spectrum, from
George Will on the right to
E.J. Dionne on the left. It was selected as one of the best books of the year by
The Economist magazine. Since 2020, Teixeira has written critically about a leftward shift within the Democratic Party. He has argued that the progressive movement in the United States is over and finished after the
2024 United States elections, positing that Democrats still do not realise it as of 2025. ==See also==