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> many policies in “conservative” Texas Just want to point out that the policy you're referring to was put in place while Democrats ran Texas. Historically Tex
by bachmeier 5y ago
> many policies in “conservative” Texas
Just want to point out that the policy you're referring to was put in place while Democrats ran Texas. Historically Texas was a Democratic state, with only eight years of Republican governors from 1874-1995.
> more progressive than what we have in “liberal” California
And also that California was historically a Republican state. For most of the years from 1943-1999, they had a Republican governor.
- KerrickStaley 5y agoNote that until recently, there was little correlation between the progressive/conservative axis and the Democratic/Republican axis. The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 led to the downfall of the Dixiecrat faction of the Democratic party and the current ideological sort. Ezra Klein's book "Why We're Polarized" has a lot of good background on this.