Texas is seceding please stop them

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7. You may want to reconsider that statement after reading this data about Texas from the last census:

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http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/48000.html

And the latest election results:

Newly-Elected Texas Senator Is Absolutely Terrified About His State Going Blue

In Ryan Lizza's story in this week's The New Yorker, Texas' newly-elected Republican Senator Ted Cruz worries about the changing electoral landscape — and how it could get even less favorable for the GOP in coming years.

Cruz provides what must be a truly terrifying thought for the Republican Party:

“In not too many years, Texas could switch from being all Republican to all Democrat,” he said. “If that happens, no Republican will ever again win the White House. New York and California are for the foreseeable future unalterably Democrat. If Texas turns bright blue, the Electoral College math is simple. We won’t be talking about Ohio, we won’t be talking about Florida or Virginia, because it won’t matter. If Texas is bright blue, you can’t get to two-seventy electoral votes. The Republican Party would cease to exist. We would become like the Whig Party. Our kids and grandkids would study how this used to be a national political party. ‘They had Conventions, they nominated Presidential candidates. They don’t exist anymore.’”

http://www.businessinsider.com/texas-swing-state-blue-election-obama-ted-cruz-2012-11

Republicans lose supermajority in Texas House

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republicans lost their 102-member supermajority in the Texas House early Wednesday, opening the door for Democrats to slow or block the majority's conservative agenda or demand compromise.

Democrats have won more than 50 seats in the 150-member lower chamber of the Legislature. That means Republicans can no longer suspend the rules to push through legislation over the objections of minority Democrats.

Last year, Republicans had enough lawmakers to form a quorum without any Democrat showing up for work. Now Democrats could shut down state lawmaking if they wished.

Democrats added seats mostly through redistricting, which occurs every 10 years when the new U.S. Census is released. Texas added more than 4.3 million people between 2000 and 2010 and 89 percent of them were minorities.

http://www.sfgate.com/news/texas/article/Republicans-lose-supermajority-in-Texas-House-4017513.php#ixzz2BhkTehKu

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021771842

That was despite gerrymandering and the other thuggish actions of Republicans. The state of Texas has had 39 Democratic govenors versus only 6 Republican governors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Governor

Texas has a longer history of being Democratic than Republican. Don't rule them out yet.