Yes, I have. Very good exhibit on it at the Bob Bullock History Museum. Reconstruction ended in 1876 with the election of President Rutherford B. Hayes. Even if we go with your silly little 1972 date (which ignores the various times Republicans won Texas handily before that date), it still has nothing to do with a party switch that occurred in 1989. Wow, and I thought Obama was desperate blaming something Bush did 8 years ago for today's events. You're blaming something that happened 113 years earlier for Perry endorsing an envirowacko socialist? Maybe reconstruction made him endorse Giuliani in 2008 too. You never know.
>> Perry is conservative and fearless and electable. <<
Ah, I see the problem. You're thinking of another guy named "Rick Perry" that has nothing in common with the one currently in office. Reminds me of the "fiscal conservatives" who voted for Obama. Because the Rick Perry who's Governor right now is a gutless flip-flopper, a guy half your fellow Texas Republicans despise and who is lucky to win 50% of the vote in a 4-way race even though he's running in a state that always votes Republican (must be "Reconstruction's" fault he polls so poorly)
>> We are so lucky he is going to be our next president. You too, even if you're too arrogant to acknowledge it. <<
Yes, and we all get behind Rick Perry Fred Thompson right now, because he's the only one who can beat Romney Rudy. Once Fred gets in, it's a guranteed victory!!!
Yawn.
I agree. Yawn.