TroglocratsRdumb
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Democrat Voters want to be submissive and obedient serfs.Candidates make races.
What most don’t understand about the shit-hole that is Texas is that the people in the small towns can’t 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 you’re not hurting anyone and live 3 blocks from the bar where you get plastered every night, they don’t care that much when you drive home and take out a few mailboxes. Or if you grow weed and clearly aren’t juiced enough to get mixed up in some violent turf war over it….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 can’t. Anyway, they basically arrest all of the folks who are given a pass in the counties and small towns. There is no “DPS” style authority patrolling the chemical plants so that is why if you drive over the speed limit on I-10 or 37, you’ll get a ticket. If you push out 3 gazillion cubic yards of pollution over your limit, you’re a “model citizen” who will never be arrested much less fined.
The reason I said all that is to say this. The culture is one of “nobody tells me what to do” and every moronic hick in the state passes this along to their kid. So when it gets into the voting booth, the parties don’t 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 that….telling you what to do. You can’t pollute. You can’t play football on Friday if you’re failing Monday-Thursday in high school. You can’t buy 500 rifles at a time…. 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 don’t know if it’s 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 there—"Let Loya Insure Yah!” He’s a big Beto Backer.
Just a little side-bar. The hilarious thing is that the “you can’t tell me what to do” is played out every year in some degree by kids getting expelled from school because they wore a shirt that the district didn’t like, or had their hair dyed a color that didn’t 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.
Anyway…as 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 Cruz’s 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 isn’t that Harris County (Houston) flipped but Fort Bend County to the SW of Houston flipped too.
If I were the Republicans…I’d 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.
Anyway…you see the pattern. Nueces County got rid of an old white puss ball as it’s 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 won’t be long if history is any indication.
GOP Voters are independent thinkers.
Traditionally the Democrats bigots have hated mainstream society.
Texas Democrats are typical angry racist bigots who hate Anglos and religious bigots who hate Christians.
The Blues parts of Texas are where all of the problems are.....poverty, crime, corruption, gangs, bad schools...
Democrat voters are low class people.
What will happen is the educated middle class voters will abandon the Dem cities first and then the entire Dem states.
The racist and corrupt Democratic Party is not really changing any minds, they are just chasing the vital middle class away.