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TxDemChem

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2. I really don't think it will turn blue until...

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Fri Mar 1, 2013, 10:13 PM

Mar 2013

(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).

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Lone Star Shift? A Daughter of Texas Speaks Out [View all] ashling Mar 2013 OP

That, too, but they're going to have to hope Warpy Mar 2013 #1

Those places are becoming more and more marginalized. DollarBillHines Mar 2013 #3

I really don't think it will turn blue until... TxDemChem Mar 2013 #2

You may be right....but there are a lot of baby boomers who have been taught the conservative... northoftheborder Mar 2013 #4