Yesterday left me in despair.

[Thirties Child]

52. Race doesn't affect Panhandle politics the way it does other parts of Texas.

Or it shouldn't. Not that many blacks to be prejudiced about; I'm not sure how they feel about the Hispanics who have flooded the place. Not much, I was told by a wonderfully successful young Hispanic woman who grew up in Dumas. She still remembers being refused service at a restaurant.

I think a lot of it is cold, hard I've-got-mine-and-you-can't-have-any-of-it. Case in point. In 1968 several of us who had moved away happened to be in town at the same time. We had an impromptu class reunion. The reunion was them 15, me 1. I will never forget the woman who got all kinds of government handouts (oil depletion allowance for starters) who said she would let a three-year-old starve to death before she would give the parents welfare. It leaves me breathless just to write about it, even after all these years. I'm sure she's all about Trump, if, that is, she's still alive.

I also think it's about exposure. I have two sisters, and we all came out of Perryton High School conservative. One stayed in Texas (DFW) and is as conservative as ever. Two of us moved away, moved away from Texas and moved away from conservatism.

On the positive side, I'm on Facebook with four classmates. Two think Trump can do no wrong, Obama could do good, and right now it's all about fake news. The other two are wonderfully liberal. Yea!!