Could Texas go Blue? I'm watching Lawrence O'Donnell's show
from last night.
He had a report about what Abbott is doing with trucks at the border. He then had Beto O'Rourke on as a guest.
As a native Texas (who's lived in California most of my adult life - since 1988), I'm wondering if there's a chance?
What do Du'ers think?
Thanks!
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although miracles can happen.
P.S. that's something that majority of the "polls" don't factor in.
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That's why I posted my question.
I wanted to hear what the word was on the street is. Since I'm from there, two of my very best childhood friends (we haven't hung out, obviously, since I moved to California in '88 but we kept in touch and would see each other every so often), are trumpsters. One because she's a evangelical and is majorily anti-choice (one of those real so-called 'pro-lifers"/anti-abortion types) and the other one because she's racist.
We simply don't speak anymore. We didn't have official "falling outs" but we've just moved away from each other (emotionally). I have NOTHING in common with them and they have nothing in common with me.....
I'm especially sorry about your family members. 
I also wonder if things have gone too far - but how many times have I thought that!!! 
The recent arrest in Texas of the young woman for murder (and thank God she's been released) for the self-induced abortion is my BIGGEST EFFING FEAR!....
Will this make the complacent and the "I don't get involved/I don't care about politics" wake up? If they haven't woken up already it seems like nothing will....I just don't know...
I know very little about Iowa. I've thought it's pretty much a red state but I don't know any of the dynamics.
I just wish TX didn't have 40 Electoral votes.....
The Fastest-Growing Group of American Evangelicals
A new generation of Latino Protestants is poised to transform our religious and political landscapes.
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/07/latinos-will-determine-future-american-evangelicalism/619551/
In 2007, when Obe and Jacqueline Arellano were in their mid-20s, they moved from the suburbs of Chicago to Aurora, Illinois, with the dream of starting a church. They chose Aurora, a midsize city with about 200,000 residents, mostly because about 40 percent of its population is Latino. Obe, a first-generation Mexican American pastor, told me, “We sensed God wanted us there.” By 2010, the couple had “planted a church,” the Protestant term for starting a brand-new congregation. This summer, the Arellanos moved to Long Beach, California, to pastor at Light & Life Christian Fellowship, which has planted 20 churches in 20 years. Their story is at once singular and representative of national trends: Across the United States, more Latino pastors are founding churches than ever before, a trend that challenges conventional views of evangelicalism and could have massive implications for the future of American politics.
Latinos are leaving the Catholic Church and converting to evangelical Protestantism in increased numbers, and evangelical organizations are putting more energy and resources toward reaching potential Latino congregants. Latinos are the fastest-growing group of evangelicals in the country, and Latino Protestants, in particular, have higher levels of religiosity—meaning they tend to go to church, pray, and read the Bible more often than both Anglo Protestants and Latino Catholics, according to Mark Mulder, a sociology professor at Calvin University and a co-author of Latino Protestants in America. At the same time, a major demographic shift is under way. Arellano, who supports Light & Life’s Spanish-speaking campus, Luz y Vida, told me, “By 2060, the Hispanic population in the United States is expected to grow from 60 million to over 110 million.” None of this is lost on either Latino or Anglo evangelical leadership: They know they need to recruit and train Latino pastors if they’re going to achieve what Arellano describes as “our vision to see that the kingdom of God will go forward and reach more people and get into every nook and cranny of society.”
The stakes of intensified Latino evangelicalism are manifold, and they depend on what kind of evangelicalism prevails across the country. The term evangelical has become synonymous with a voting bloc of Anglo cultural conservatives, but in general theological terms, evangelicals are Christians who believe in the supremacy of the Bible and that they are compelled to spread its gospel. Some Christians who identify with the theological definition fit the political stereotype, but others don’t. That’s true among evangelical Latino leaders too—they have very different interpretations of how the teachings of Jesus Christ call them to act. Every pastor I spoke with told me that they want to see more Latino pastors in leadership positions, and they each had a different take on what new Latino leadership could mean for the future of evangelicalism. When we spoke over the phone, Samuel Rodriguez, the president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference and the pastor of New Season Worship, in Sacramento, California, told me, “We’re not extending our hand out, asking, ‘Can you help us plant churches?’ We’re coming to primarily white denominations and going, ‘You all need our help.’ This is a flipping of the script.”
Although Latino congregations are too diverse to characterize in shorthand, one of the few declarative statements that can be made about Latino Protestants is a fact borne out with numbers: They are likelier than Latino Catholics to vote Republican. The expansion of Latino evangelicalism bucks assumptions that Democrats and progressives will soon have a clear advantage as the white church declines and the Hispanic electorate rises. “Some counterintuitive things that have happened [in our national politics] would make more sense if we better understood the faith communities that exist within Latinx Protestantism,” Mulder told me over the phone, alluding to the differing perspectives Latinos hold on many issues, including immigration, and how more Latinos voted for former President Donald Trump in 2020 than in 2016. According to the Public Religion Research Institute, Protestant affiliation correlated more with Hispanic approval of Trump’s job in office than age or gender.
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excellent longform article, much more at the top link
In 2014, 11% of Latinos were Evangelicals.
Now, the latest numbers from Pew show it is up to 19% (in less that 7 years)
It is likely over 20% now and growing rapidly, driven by the younger gens,
less than half of Latinos in the US are now Catholic, which is pretty amazing
https://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/racial-and-ethnic-composition/latino/
Thank you so much for this post....
Thanks for your input.....
I'm actually disappointed that Beto is the candidate because my sense has been that he's too progressive for Texas. His "taking your guns away" comments seem to have been taken out of context which, as we know, can sometimes be an obstacle too big to overcome in some situations.
Yes! Here's to miracles!
I'm in California too but am from TX.
As someone else mentioned, they didn't know what the word on the street was and I don't either so that's why I posted....
The state has 40 Electoral Votes.......
Actually, I have a much better sense thanks to what I'm reading.
Am I enlightened? No! However, I'm working on it since I don't want to reincarnate to Planet Earth! I want to go to a happier more loving place!!!
That has been my feeling for years.
However, every fricken' cycle I kind of think that there might there might be a small chance......
I was just horrified when I heard the recording of the Texas Administrator who was facilitating a professional development day for teachers at a school in Texas and she told them that if they had a book in their library on the Holocaust they needed another book with an opposing view (or words to that effect).....
