West Texas Billionaires Set Aim At Forcing Hispanics Out Of Texans

[Shell_Seas]

Trigger Warning: This article contains shocking screenshots from well-funded white supremacists. First, they targeted women, then the LGBTQ community, and next, they set their aim on Hispanic Texans.

https://www.lonestarleft.com/p/west-texas-billionaires-set-aim-at


The two men pictured above are Tim Dunn and Ferris Wilks, two oil oligarchs from West Texas. A few years ago, CNN made a documentary about these men called Deep in the Pockets of Texas. You can see the video below if you haven’t already.

They’ve been in the headlines again recently, paying Dan Patrick $3 million to acquit Ken Paxton. Their ultimate goal is transforming Texas into an authoritarian, white, Christian Nationalist state.

Over the last decade, Dunn and Wilks have bought the top politicians in Texas with over $100 million in contributions. And it’s not just politicians. They fund a sprawling network of PACs, think tanks, and media outlets.

[eppur_se_muova]

1. Tejanos never crossed the border; the border crossed them.

Texas was Spanish or Mexican territory for longer than it's been American. You can't change that. Many large cities in Texas are over 70% Mexican descendent.

https://hcnmedia.com/news/latinos-in-the-united-states-the-10-cities-with-the-most-hispanics/ (scroll to the bottom)

[demosincebirth]

2. So true.

[Vogon_Glory]

9. Not just the cities either

I have done a lot of driving in Texas for the last forty years and I’ve seen the demographic changes with my own eyes. Admittedly, using small-town store clerks and passers by is a rotten for of sampling, but it’s still telling.

When I was a kid, most of the small-town store clerks were white, there were few visible Hispanics, and what there were were mostly out of sight.

Fast forward forty years, many of the people I encounter in stores, restaurants, in public places are Hispanics. I’m not talking about inner-city neighborhoods, but big cities, small cities, and towns across the entire state. I’d say most of the public school kids I’ve seen are Hispanics, including schools in the reddest, most rural parts of the state up into the Texas Panhandle ( and spreading towards Louisiana and Arkansas).

That this idea of whitening Texas shows just how vile the Texas GOP is becoming and how out of touch the Texas Republican Party is with the real Texas are with their citizenry.

[NCIndie]

3. Texans of Mexican descent are not necessarily Dems

Many (a majority?) espouse traditional conservative values including 2nd amendment rights, traditional marriage, and restricted immigration.

Non-Texas Dems can’t seem to wrap their arms around that.

[Shell_Seas]

6. According to exit polls, 62% of Hispanics vote Democrat in Texas.

[NCIndie]

7. Many (38%) but not most VOTE nonDem

My comment was more about attitudes than voting, but the numbers support my point.

[keithbvadu2]

4. Another 'lost cause'.

It can create hate and discontent but... no friggin' way.

This is not a joke?

[Lonestarblue]

5. These people are just plain evil.

They also have a plan to kill public education in Texas and replace it with white Christian nationalist schools funded by taxpayers but teaching a white supremacist curriculum. No one should bet against their ambitions because they have already achieved their goal of no abortions, persecution of LGBTQ+, the takeover of the Harris County elections system, and voting laws that make it difficult or impossible for minorities to vote.

It’s interesting that Texas is actually already a minority-majority state and has been for many years. While some Hispanics and Black people have been elected to the state house, the state power structure is still totally white controlled. But evidently that control is not enough. What Dunn and Wilks want, then, is to remove more than 50% of the citizens of Texas. Where do they think they can send them? Citizens of Mexican descent were here long before white Texans. If anyone should leave, it’s the interloper white people.

[LeftInTX]

11. I can think of better places than Texas!

This is like the Texas secession stuff that comes up. It won't happen. It would be nice to have our family kicked out of this state because I've been trying to convince hubby to move for decades. Now that we have grown, married kids with grandkids all living locally, we're really stuck. Hubby is Latino, two of my kid's spouses are Latino. Bring it on! We can move to Wisconsin where I'm from.

[Vogon_Glory]

8. Force Hispanics out of Texas? Can't be done

Texas is too demographically diverse and was even when these guys were little babies soiling their diapers. From the photos, that was almost a lifetime ago.

Euro-Americans (people of primarily European descent, both emigrants and native-born) are no longer a majority. Moreover, I believe they’re outnumbered by Hispanics alone, not just from immigration, but also from natural increase. (These reactionaries’ allies’ war on Planned Parenthood and family planning helped this trend along).

Moreover, Texas Hispanics have long since moved beyond just being cooks, maids, ranch hands, and other lower-class niches and if they’re not a majority in Texas’ wealthiest 10 percent, they’re definitely in the middle classes. It’s been that way for years

Not that they aren’t a threat. Texas Hispanics can and ought to have more places at the political and economic tables, despite certain reactionaries’ dreams of restoring a state. Of affairs that passed decades ago.

[LeftInTX]

10. Kick us out. We need a reason to leave the state. Hubby won't go!

Kids won't go!

Kick us out, so we can go somewhere better than this hellhole!

[walkingman]

12. Never underestimate nasty white people. History shows us that over and over.

I personally am sick of the GOP bastards. They are not content unless they are stirring up some ridiculous BS.

It is quite obvious that they would love to go back to the 1950s and they are doing everything possible to make it happen.

The entire GOP party are a bunch of clowns.