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Related: About this forumLone Star Shift? A Daughter of Texas Speaks Out
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/27/opinion/lone-star-shift-a-daughter-of-texas-speaks-out.html?_r=3&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1362186057-OEMAUyldcL0/5aaLu26nfgGov. Rick Perry and his party have given priority to anti-womens health policies, first slashing money for the states family planning program and then creating a costly health program that denies women access to Planned Parenthoods preventive health care services. This strategy is out of touch with what Texans want.
Warpy
(111,327 posts)a lot of those wingnut churches that preach politics start to go out of business, also.
I don't see Texas turning very blue as long as those crooked churches are still allowed to preach hate and call it godly.
DollarBillHines
(1,922 posts)Obama won almost every metropolitan area (including Beaumont, for God's sake!).
The only thing keeping Texas red is gerrymandering. It is really that simple.
Once Perry and the rest of the Rove/Bush cabal is out, it will be all over but the crying.
And it won't be long.
TxDemChem
(1,918 posts)(And I hate to say this because it sounds ugly) the older, ultra-conservative, climate change-denying, sexually sterile people die off. I work with a lot of them and they just seem so backwards. They can deny it all they want, but some of their daughters and sons just don't believe in that fictional 1950s America that they have been talking about. This is not "Leave It to Beaver" land (and never was).
northoftheborder
(7,572 posts)...doctrine....and they ain't gone yet.