You think that would fix anything? It's better to turn the south to blue from the inside. Not everyone in Texas is a GOP supporter. Like the nation as a whole (if you read the polls), Texas is about 50/50. Ted Cruz only won by 3% of the vote last time.
I was a little tongue in cheek. You are right, of course. But at least they wouldn't have been able to blame the blue states for all their problems. We will be able to see a huge change as soon as we get Gerrymandering outlawed in all 50 states.
Don't apologize! Texas is an embarrassment to the "Union!" I call it a third-world colony of Oil! They voluntarily seceded from the interstate power grid, so aid from the Union physically could not help in the Big Freeze. The Freeze (not the first) did not stop at the border, but the power outage did. How shameful is it, that American citizens were fleeing over the border to save their lives? I heard a live interview with a woman who was desperately trying to get a room in Mexico, but all the Mexican hotels were full (and had power!)
Meanwhile the GOP has no problem with firearms being the leading cause of death for kids....Anyway, I sometimes feel like that too, Shea. But it would not be a good idea. If you want to see how that could have worked out, Harry Turtledove wrote a series of books on the South winning. We ended up with two countries that hated each other, with the South lining up with its supporters in France and Britain while the North aligned with Germany and became a highly militarized country. When World War 1 began in Europe the fighting quickly spilled over here too.
Like I say, we really should have let the South secede and gotten rid of them when we had the chance.
You think that would fix anything? It's better to turn the south to blue from the inside. Not everyone in Texas is a GOP supporter. Like the nation as a whole (if you read the polls), Texas is about 50/50. Ted Cruz only won by 3% of the vote last time.
I was a little tongue in cheek. You are right, of course. But at least they wouldn't have been able to blame the blue states for all their problems. We will be able to see a huge change as soon as we get Gerrymandering outlawed in all 50 states.
and voter suppression.
Don't apologize! Texas is an embarrassment to the "Union!" I call it a third-world colony of Oil! They voluntarily seceded from the interstate power grid, so aid from the Union physically could not help in the Big Freeze. The Freeze (not the first) did not stop at the border, but the power outage did. How shameful is it, that American citizens were fleeing over the border to save their lives? I heard a live interview with a woman who was desperately trying to get a room in Mexico, but all the Mexican hotels were full (and had power!)
Texas maybe 50/50 but the Republicans control the state, thanks to oil money especially Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks, two fanatic Christians.
Only crazy effing Republicans would vote for Ted Cruz. He belongs in one of those s****** countries the Rump talks about.
Meanwhile the GOP has no problem with firearms being the leading cause of death for kids....Anyway, I sometimes feel like that too, Shea. But it would not be a good idea. If you want to see how that could have worked out, Harry Turtledove wrote a series of books on the South winning. We ended up with two countries that hated each other, with the South lining up with its supporters in France and Britain while the North aligned with Germany and became a highly militarized country. When World War 1 began in Europe the fighting quickly spilled over here too.
Agreed! They would've failed miserably!