Texas Goes Blue

[Faith No More]

My Mexicans trim my trees and bushes. They are hard workers and reliable. The only people who come along leaving ads for landscaping services are also Mexicans. I've never had a gringo come to my door yet who wanted to trim the bougainvillea.

They also do other jobs that gringos won't like picking crops on farms.

But beware! They're taking all the jobs...that we didn't want in the first place.

[Doubting Thomas]

They took err jerb!

[MindForgedManacle]

I live in Texas. I'd like this to be true, but my pessimism won't let me. .-.

[Rahul]

I don't think a lot of you naysayers grasp how much this anti-abortion legislation has hit the general population in Texas.

People I've known for years and years that never mentioned politics at all down here are really getting upset.

I've personally never voted for a Texas Governor. I didn't even know G W Bush was alive until he ran for president in 2000. Our former president George H. W. Bush had a son named George? And he was my state's governor? Never realized. Didn't care back then.

I've voting now. My white, raised Southern Baptist, in a tiny East Texas village ass is voting for every freaking election I can from now on. And it's not going to be any of the current radical Repubs that get my vote. They'll need major reforms before I even consider any of them, for any office.

I don't consider myself Dem or Repub. But I lean toward the Dems on most issues. And lately the Repubs have gone so batshit insane I'm just like, "Fuck you fucking fuckers."

The radical Repulicans just turned one of their most supportive demographic members against them in a violent manner. I used to be apathetic. Now I'm pissed.

And I'm not the only one. A shit-ton of Texans just woke up.

[Doubting Thomas]

I sure hope you're right. You'd know better than I would, since I don't live down there, and I hate to be pessimistic, but I definitely hope you're right.

Think about it... if Texas goes blue, joining with traditionally blue California, it's going to be extremely hard for any Republican president to get elected any time soon.

[Ryantology]

I believe it will happen, but I also think it's going to take longer than a year. By the end of this decade, perhaps, it will be purple trending blue. By the end of the next decade, it will be solid blue. In 2014, it will still, even if to a slightly lesser degree, be the state of Dickhead Perry and Calgary Cruz (who bears an uncanny resemblance to internet superstar Chris-chan).

[Minimalist]

A shit-ton of Texans just woke up.

But will they stay awake until the next election. The attention span of Americans is short.

[Rahul]

But will they stay awake until the next election. The attention span of Americans is short.

Announced today in the local news outlet that the local Planned Parenthood clinic is shutting down August 1st. I've driven by that clinic a hundred times (less than a mile from my work). Also the two most closest clinics to us are shutting down.

Any poverty stricken, uninsured woman here (a location with around a quarter of a million people) will have to drive to Houston (around a hundred miles away) for services like cervical cancer, medical screenings, birth control, etc.

In the past 3 years 130,000 fewer Texas women have the option of health services based on their situation in life and what the Texas Republicans have done here in the past few years.

Yeah, we're staying awake.