“...we thought California had “a very different base mindeset” too. Turns out, we were wrong...”
Yeah, you were wrong about Californians, and you’re wrong today about Texans. But I was wrong too, once upon a time.
As a native Californio of some fifty years residency, I think I know a thing or two about the mindset of people there, both past and present.
I’ve now been a Texas resident for ten years, and can tell you that Texas conservatives have a whole different mindset than their California cousins. It’s a cultural thing, and it’s very real.
I won’t lie to you - we’ve got a big problem with illegals here, though it’s nowhere near as bad as California. For one thing, our new Governor is doing ten times more to interdict illegal border crossers than Rick Perry ever did. It’s having an impact, but we need much stronger medicine.
For all our sakes, I hope and pray that Donald Trump is our next president, because he has made it his signature mission to build an impenetrable barrier along our southern border, and eject every illegal in the country. Above all else, it’s why the people made him the nominee.
It was not always that way in California, and so to it will not always be the way you think it is now in Texas. Sure, you still can muster up enough votes to keep the GOP running the show at the state level, but that's going to change, and in point of fact it's changing day by day. It will start, if it hasn't already with Mexican RAT-run counties ( and electing carpebagging turds like George P. Boosh). So enjoy what you have, while you still can. I never thought CA would go RAT either. Unless we get Trump for president, you can pretty well kiss Texas current politics goodbye. Your only avenue to preserve Texas will be to secede.