Most of them are convinced that Texas is a gun-totin’, red meat eatin’, rebel flag wavin’ state, packed wall to wall with tobacco chewin’, Bush lovin’ right-wingers.
I do all I can to reinforce that stereotype ;-)
I just heard a news report that 478,000 Americans relocated to Texas in the last 12 months, and that Texas is the fastest growing state in the union.
I do hope that most of those nearly half-million people are at least center-right in their politics.
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To tell you how bad Bush derangement brainwashing has been: with all Bush’s flaws, the one item you listed which probably makes them most incensed: Bush lovin’ - LOL!
In many ways, that’s funny...we can reinforce the stereotypes, as you say, while populating a strong Southern portion (all the way across to AZ) of the country with dedicated Constitutional Conservatives.
Hear, hear!
Till secession, then we will hand them back. (wish)
Liberals above the Mason-Dixon line have a somewhat trained-in cultural aversion to the Deep South, and even some parts of the South-West. I very much hope that these areas of the country grow ever more conservative in the coming years.
I have a feeling that geographic lines are slowly and quietly being drawn (maybe even unconsciously) between the right and left, along the old historic battle lines of the Civil War era.