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No, I don’t mean the state. I mean being in conversations with people that are completely ignorant of it. You know, the type of people that believe it’s essentially a foreign country of Republicans, looks like a mix of Dallas sets and wild frontier, and everyone sounds like the conservative test tube child of JR Ewing, Matthew McConaughey, and Owen Wilson. Do you know how many times I’ve been told I don’t have an accent? That would be several hundred times past Michael Douglas Falling Down levels of irritation.
You know what Texas is? Flippin huge with a diverse population and the political machinations of New York. 70% of the population lives in the triangle of urban areas bounded by Dallas-Ft. Worth, San Antonio, and Houston and most of that population is liberal and doesn’t sound particularly different from people in LA or New York except fewer Jersey accents (thank god.) That doesn’t count the urban population of El Paso, Abeline, and Brownsville (home of the car-related near death experience.) You’re talking a state that alternately looks like Wetland, plains, steppe, hill country, beach, or forest in lakes just depending on where you drop your finger on a map.
Why does everyone think it’s the haven of the evangelical and the NeoCon? Because after one auspicious election, they redrew the election maps and the rest of the country just went “hmm” as the Republicans engineered an unloseable map in a state whose population encompasses at least 3 New York cities. Could other states have filed amicus briefs on the behalf of Texas Democrats? Sure, but they didn’t because New York, Illinois, and California do the same things to Republicans in their states. Why fight that battle when you can just hit Texas Democrats up for money every election cycle which is exactly how the party has operated in Texas over the last decade. Want to know what an Urban population looks like when its run by rural areas with disproportionate representation? How about when a national party sells out its base? Howdy Pardners!
See, I don’t blame people for being ignorant of other States. I haven’t the slightest idea what it’s like to live in Delaware, North Dakota, or Oregon. The thing is, most people don't bring those states up constantly either for whatever odd tangential laws they've enacted. But my head does a Linda Blair Exorcist spin trick when I’m consistently on sites (not particularly this board) or in places where I have to listen to people pop off about Texas which they do because it’s A) Huge, B) Has a large population, C) read a blog post written by someone from Boston.
Look genius, if you have a problem with the politics or the people of the state, pour your money in to fixing it rather than taking the money out and starving the progressive base that is there (Austin is NOT an aberration.) Get that you’re dealing with a political/media machine that made George W. Bush from Connecticut look like a Texan and Wyatt Cenac and Steve Martin look like they were from New York and California respectively. Seriously, buddy your thoughts on the fictional country called Texas are just annoying.
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Weeee. That was fun.
You know what Texas is? Flippin huge with a diverse population and the political machinations of New York. 70% of the population lives in the triangle of urban areas bounded by Dallas-Ft. Worth, San Antonio, and Houston and most of that population is liberal and doesn’t sound particularly different from people in LA or New York except fewer Jersey accents (thank god.) That doesn’t count the urban population of El Paso, Abeline, and Brownsville (home of the car-related near death experience.) You’re talking a state that alternately looks like Wetland, plains, steppe, hill country, beach, or forest in lakes just depending on where you drop your finger on a map.
Why does everyone think it’s the haven of the evangelical and the NeoCon? Because after one auspicious election, they redrew the election maps and the rest of the country just went “hmm” as the Republicans engineered an unloseable map in a state whose population encompasses at least 3 New York cities. Could other states have filed amicus briefs on the behalf of Texas Democrats? Sure, but they didn’t because New York, Illinois, and California do the same things to Republicans in their states. Why fight that battle when you can just hit Texas Democrats up for money every election cycle which is exactly how the party has operated in Texas over the last decade. Want to know what an Urban population looks like when its run by rural areas with disproportionate representation? How about when a national party sells out its base? Howdy Pardners!
See, I don’t blame people for being ignorant of other States. I haven’t the slightest idea what it’s like to live in Delaware, North Dakota, or Oregon. The thing is, most people don't bring those states up constantly either for whatever odd tangential laws they've enacted. But my head does a Linda Blair Exorcist spin trick when I’m consistently on sites (not particularly this board) or in places where I have to listen to people pop off about Texas which they do because it’s A) Huge, B) Has a large population, C) read a blog post written by someone from Boston.
Look genius, if you have a problem with the politics or the people of the state, pour your money in to fixing it rather than taking the money out and starving the progressive base that is there (Austin is NOT an aberration.) Get that you’re dealing with a political/media machine that made George W. Bush from Connecticut look like a Texan and Wyatt Cenac and Steve Martin look like they were from New York and California respectively. Seriously, buddy your thoughts on the fictional country called Texas are just annoying.
/RantOff
Weeee. That was fun.
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