Longtime Texas Democratic House district goes GOP after Mayra Flores wins special election -- NY Post This is the area where I lived and worked as a paramedic for twenty years. Literally, during that time, it was rare for a Republican to even run for office and, when one did, it was with the assumption that s/he's lose big. For all practical purposes, elections were called when the Democrat Primary votes were calculated because no Republican was going to win. I've mentioned elsewhere in this forum that Republicans have been making inroads over the past five years or so. The first Republican elected was a Sheriff in Cameron County, and now a Congressional district. I have been in contact with people in the EMS field in the Rio Grande Valley through a Facebook group and, although nearly all of them voted Democrat while I was living there, most of them may not have voted for Trump in 2016, but they soon came to support him, in large part because Hispanic citizens on the border do not like open borders. By the way, in Texas, anyone eligible to vote can vote in either Primary election, but not in both.
I saw something recently that the emigres from California to Texas are actually turning the state Red. When surveys were taken after the last election, more native Texans apparently voted for O'Rourke over Cruz; it was the new arrivals from California that elected Cruz. They were apparently serious about fleeing the Blue despotism. Hispanics have been moving to the Republicans in droves recently over immigration and abortion.
Yeh, I read this earlier today. Virginia is the same way. There is no party registration. When you show up to vote in the primaries, they ask which booth you want (R or D) and they check you off of the list so you don't double-dip. Of course, when you live in tolerant Northern Virginia in 2008 where people are lined up to "make history," and you get taken right in because you're there to vote in the Republican primary, you get to experience everyone else in line laughing at you. I think (or at least hope) it's more than this. I have always said that managed immigration is a good thing for lots of reasons, among them is that immigrants refresh our appreciation of our freedoms. Many of these folks are fleeing the type of government that Democrats are trying to impose, and they don't like it. Many of them are entrepreneurs (that's why they came here), and know how Democrat policies affect them. I'll tell you the big difference that is gonna blow up on the face of the Dems...when you steal elections from we long-term complacent Americans, we'll wring our hands and wait for "someone" or "the system" to right the wrong. I don't believe this population has quite been absorbed into that way of thinking yet. Perhaps the rest of us could appropriate a bit of their culture, for the greater good.
I think it's the arrogance and bigotry of the Dems blowing up in their faces, thinking that they own a class of people.
There is so much to pick apart there. I think most of us have absorbed our party affiliation as part of our identities. Such a thing is relatively new to me (in my early voting years, the candidate was what mattered, not their affiliation.) It is not easily shed, in the best of circumstances.
Sadly, we hope to bring correction through the voting booth. Yet, when we elect Republicans to a majority, they typically fall all over themselves to capitulate to the Democrats.
Yup. They are all mostly pigs at the trough. But it's the neutering of our watchdogs (media and judiciary) that enables it.
Sorry, but I have a very hard time believing that. Texas is red, though it has been slowly eroding in recent years. The large metro areas of Texas (notably Austin, Houston, Dallas) are all liberal, particularly Austin where there seem to be more Californians than Texans these days. Seems to me that Californians are fleeing high cost of living and high taxes more than anything else. Many people who voted for that ridiculous O'Rourke were simply voting AGAINST Cruz. Cruz isn't very popular here but unfortunately our state elections mirror the nationals... choose the lesser of two evils.
I agree that managed immigration is generally a good thing. Immigration got out of control in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and was essentially shut down from the 1920s until a Kennedy-led (Ted) movement in the 1960s opened the borders again. Perhaps the Democrats benefitted form the influx of uneducated people coming to what they thought would be a better life. Those were mostly legal entrants into our system. They were screened for diseases and the ability to support themselves prior to entry. Today's "migrants" are entering illegally inmost cases, are not screened for diseases (in most cases) and expect to enter the U.S. welfare system upon entry. The influx of labor among those who really want to work for a living are undercutting the existing U.S. labor market.
I almost never respond to surveys, although I get quite a few calls and texts. My cell phone number is private and I never answer it unless the caller is on my contacts list, so when politicians call and surveyors call, I know they are using number AT&T has sold them.