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Vogon_Glory

(9,726 posts)
9. Not just the cities either
Thu Oct 5, 2023, 05:00 PM
Oct 2023

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.

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