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Jarqui

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7. I think this is true:
Wed Dec 2, 2015, 03:29 PM
Dec 2015
While Texas may not become a Democratic state today or even in the next couple of years, it’s certainly something we can expect to happen in the near future.


Latino population is growing quickly. I think they may surpass the white non-Hispanic population in Texas in the next 10 years or so. Might take a little longer for them to reach voting age - not sure.

Then all the GOP positions calling Latinos rapists and wanting to round them up will come home to roost.

I do think it's a key thing to keep an eye on because as the article suggests, once Texas turns blue, the racist GOP as we know it will start to become politically extinct because they cannot win the White House without Texas.

I think Nixon is the only Republican since 1924 to win the White House without Texas in 1968. He'll probably be the last one to do so until the GOP changes their policies towards non-whites.

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