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yes that is the inevitable result, Glenn, You bring in a bunch of educated smart people, tech workers, and yes they are going to vote for Democrats not insane backwards tea partiers.
duh.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)As a Blue Texan we need all the blue we can get.
ZRT2209
(1,357 posts)that's American! tell people how to vote!
freshwest
(53,661 posts)My Ten Favorite Kinds of Right-Wing Temper Tantrums
by Lindy West 11/08/12
I remember how I felt when George W. Bush was reelected in 2004 - that pit of absolute unthinkable, desparate despair - and so I guess I should have a little more sympathy for the 150 Million Waaahmbulances of the Apocalypse currently flailing all over Twitter. And, beyond that, I should probably be sad about the overt racism of our conservative youngsters and frightened at the gun-nuttiness of our gun nuts.
However. At least for right now, I AM NOT. I am just 99% completely fucking delighted by every single weepy right-wing temper tantrum. I can't stop hate-reading. I can't stop. And you know what?
I don't need to stop. It's not like this was some arbitrary election for Homecoming Court - where we were choosing between Mitt Romney's totally on-trend bangs and Barack Obama's ability to pull off a structured blazer.
The party that my team defeated on Tuesday was a nebulous, fiscally disastrous pitchfork mob - united by racism, xenophobia, self-interest, willful ignorance, hatred of the poor, and a puritanical desire to deny my gay friends their civil rights and me, PERSONALLY, equal access to health care and basic humanity. That's about as ungracious as it gets. So fuck being gracious.
Much more at the link:
http://jezebel.com/5958966/my-ten-favorite-kinds-of-right+wing-temper-tantrums
LonePirate
(13,431 posts)As soon as the Democrats take over Texas, it will be all over for the Republicans and they know it. We can start marching if not racing the country forward at that point.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Con artist.
Zen Democrat
(5,901 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Beck bemoaning, Perry's strategery backfiring, and...um...I forget what the third thing is.
Oops!
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)TlalocW
(15,391 posts)Has enough time passed where we can tell that there is a trend of business owners moving from CA to TX, and that they tend to vote blue?
TlalocW
LeftInTX
(25,555 posts)Texas has had an increase in Californians over the past decade.
I think they're part of the same groups that went to Las Vegas and Phoenix before the big recession in 2008. They came to Texas when jobs were declining in CA and employment was good in Texas.
LostOne4Ever
(9,290 posts)In spite of Perry's strategy.
Its only a matter of time before we become a swing state!