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In reply to the discussion: All right, Democrats. Are you awake NOW??? [View all]hamsterjill
(15,224 posts)What happened in Texas? You mean, today, or over the last forty years?
In a nutshell, over the last forty years, a bunch of rich jackasses moved here from other parts of the country and turned what was a thriving BLUE Texas into a red hell hole. At first, it was all about rich people not paying taxes. But then, the mega churches took seed and we have probably two generations of crazies now out there "savin' babies" because that's what God told them to do. The rich idiots figured out that they could use the religious crazies by keeping them all riled up and getting them to vote like the rich idiots. So they organized and it all turned into the crazy Republicans who have now gerrymandered the state so that voting doesn't really matter.
Sorry if you were looking for a more formal answer. But that's actually how Texas went from blue to red. Today's "win" for the crazies is putting a feather in their cap and it will embolden them. They won't stop at Texas. They could set their sights on Minnesota next. One never knows.