Candidates make races.
What most donât understand about the shit-hole that is Texas is that the people in the small towns canât be told what to do by the law, by the courts, or by the political parties. The local LEOs have tolerance for good old boys and whatnot. If youâre not hurting anyone and live 3 blocks from the bar where you get plastered every night, they donât care that much when you drive home and take out a few mailboxes. Or if you grow weed and clearly arenât juiced enough to get mixed up in some violent turf war over itâŚ.they will let you grow your weed. Speeding, burning your trash during a drought, etc⌠Its all good. You see this on the roadways, in the schools, etc⌠all the way up to the businesses whose plants continuously blow up along the coast line due to zero regulation.
The only people who are almost incorruptible are the TDPS. Try driving from SA to Houston/Corpus/Victoria/Fort Stockton without seeing platoons of their cars patrolling the roadways. You canât. Anyway, they basically arrest all of the folks who are given a pass in the counties and small towns. There is no âDPSâ style authority patrolling the chemical plants so that is why if you drive over the speed limit on I-10 or 37, youâll get a ticket. If you push out 3 gazillion cubic yards of pollution over your limit, youâre a âmodel citizenâ who will never be arrested much less fined.
The reason I said all that is to say this. The culture is one of ânobody tells me what to doâ and every moronic hick in the state passes this along to their kid. So when it gets into the voting booth, the parties donât have all that much of an impact in Texas. What does have an impact is psychee. The Democrats have a big problem over there because a lot of their platform is doing exactly thatâŚ.telling you what to do. You canât pollute. You canât play football on Friday if youâre failing Monday-Thursday in high school. You canât buy 500 rifles at a timeâŚ. whatever. For the Republicans, the problem is that the rural areas in Texas have become so hickified that a Hispanic who wants to get a house in Beeville or Splendora or Ozona or Kerrville etc⌠will quickly find themselves being pulled over for driving while Mexican, their kids will be treated differently in school, etc⌠So they move to a larger town like Corpus, San Antonio, Houston, etc⌠where their culture has taken some root and you end up with places like South Houston, where English is essentially a foreign language.
I used to work near this place in South Houston on Spencer Highway near Shaver Street.
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I donât know if itâs still there but across the street was another super market named Mi Tienda. And I see in the pic that Fred Loya has an insurance office thereâ"Let Loya Insure Yah!â Heâs a big Beto Backer.
Just a little side-bar. The hilarious thing is that the âyou canât tell me what to doâ is played out every year in some degree by kids getting expelled from school because they wore a shirt that the district didnât like, or had their hair dyed a color that didnât conform etc⌠The same law enforcement apparatus that enforces the laws it deems necessary is the same group that puts the hammer down on non-conformity. When, in actuality, they too are the non-conformists.
AnywayâŚas for politics, Republican psychee is the biggest problem the republicans have. It drives Hispanics out of the small towns to larger cities where they vote in blocks for Democrats who are only a few degrees less repugnant than Republicans.
This is Cruzâs victory in 2012 as I recall.
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The blue areas in the middle is Bexar County (I believe) and Dallas County. Note the light red around each.
Now here is his victory in 2018:
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Note the Tarrant County (by Dallas) and Comal and Travis County around San Antonio. All Flipped! The largest WTF isnât that Harris County (Houston) flipped but Fort Bend County to the SW of Houston flipped too.
If I were the RepublicansâŚIâd be launching a full court press probe of voter fraud in FTB county. That is Tom DeLay territory (or at least was). Shocking results there.
AnywayâŚyou see the pattern. Nueces County got rid of an old white puss ball as itâs county judge and replace it with a young Latina named Barbra Canales so It looks ripe for the picking for the Dems as well.
So the future looks bright for the DEMS in Texas until they screw it up which wonât be long if history is any indication.
